how is it for recording live music? i ask because older ones distort at a not-very-loud level and you cannot adjust it to work right....
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I haven't tried recording music, so I don't know. May try later, when it's not late. I only got it to create audio books of rare books and periodicals I have access to at a college library.FOLLOW UP: I put the unit up to my home stereo speakers. They were not at a deafening volume, but loud enough you wouldn't want to be sleeping in a room nearby. No distortions. I held the recorder right up against the speakers. It captured pretty good tone differences too, depending on which tweeters/cones I held it to.
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It is stereo. It's also surprising how on many of these microphones they don't disclose the fact that they are stereo. It's as if it is assumed. I have not used it to record live music, but I think it would be terrific. I'm very impressed with the good sound quality and the direct to disk recording is essential. Get the version that takes the micro USB card.
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The problem is that I'd like to use it when recording video, not just for voice notes. It's been very frustrating - sometimes it records in stereo, but most of the time in mono. I haven't been able to figure out what makes the difference.
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As far as I can tell from some basic tests, pretty good, although I have not yet had a chance to try this mic in a live performance. I had contact with Rodemic about this microphone because of the handling noise and their recommendation was to set the mic to +20db and the recording level of the mic in the camera to low. This way you will prevent noise resulting from the average camera circuitry. Obviously, if you arerecording very loud music, like in a rock concert, you might want to lower the mic input level. Just a matter of experimenting, I guess.
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Can you please recommend me any recording software to use with this? I just don't know any! :-) Thanks!
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As far as sound quality goes, its awesome. The part where it lags is on on muliti track recording. I say this because you can't record seperate tracks individually like you can on a digital recorder. You can run 6 drum mics, guitar cab, bass, and vocals and whatever else in simultaneously and be fine but they are all going yo be down to left or right channels. You can go back and add overbubs with no problem but if you everything on its own channel so you can go back in and protools it, its not gonna be so easy. But for what I use it for it is an awesome unit and I highly recommend it for recording practices and shows. If you are trying to make a good HQ demo, get a tascam or something similar. As far as sound quality goes, its awesome. The part where it lags is on on muliti track recording. I say this because you can't record seperate tracks individually like you can on a digital recorder. You can run 6 drum mics, guitar cab, bass, and vocals and whatever else in simultaneously and be fine but they are all going yo be down to left or right channels. You can go back and add overbubs with no problem but if you everything on its own channel so you can go back in and protools it, its not gonna be so easy. But for what I use it for it is an awesome unit and I highly recommend it for... » Read More As far as sound quality goes, its awesome. The part where it lags is on on muliti track recording. I say this because you can't record seperate tracks individually like you can on a digital recorder. You can run 6 drum mics, guitar cab, bass, and vocals and whatever else in simultaneously and be fine but they are all going yo be down to left or right channels. You can go back and add overbubs with no problem but if you everything on its own channel so you can go back in and protools it, its not gonna be so easy. But for what I use it for it is an awesome unit and I highly recommend it for recording practices and shows. If you are trying to make a good HQ demo, get a tascam or something similar. « Show Less
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I recommend you read the manual. I'm using this unit for stereo recordings, but I believe there's a mono setting which would do that. Keep in mind there are only 4 XLR Powered connections
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ive experimented with running my mic through my pedal board for recording and it seemed to work fine however I prefer to use the reverb settings from the recording program. I cant see why it wouldnt work live but like the other guy said, you would need to use 1/4'' cable for your microphone.
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Unfortunately it only records in mono. You'll only get one side of audio and you'll have to mirror it in post production. It works great for mono recording but is, shall we say, a little one sided.
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It would be okay but I'd say you should find a music mic for live music... this one is more for open filming.
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That happened to me with the thumb drive. I cranked to volume up to right before its too loud for the speakers or earphones. Then it is fine on other mediums. Its still not like what you get from the overproduced music today but you hear the warmth natural sound of the record.
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Hi, Using only the half inch speaker from the recorder, very limited in frequency response, no bass at all and very low level; but if you put it on a solid table surface and raise volume to max level, you can hear it ok from a foot or two, no distorsion. Using a pair of good headphone, sound is excellent, loud enough, no distorsion, can easily be used as a Walkman. When I use it to record musical performance, I always carry good headphone to get better monitoring. Louis
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I am also a hearing aid user and I really miss live music. I still go to shows but using HAs really distorts the loud music and listening without looses part of the music even if overall it is loud enough. I am looking for a headphone amp with a graphic equalizer and a stereo microphone for the amp input. If folks have any suggestions, I hope they will post them.
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alan's post is it in a nutshell. i have a zoom q3 that i record on a grand piano with, and the lack of at least a fixed "mid-gain" is the biggest drawback to the device. their new HD version doesn't address it either. too bad, because it is a nice little unit for the money.
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I've used this for many, many concerts. You MUST make sure that you set it in music mode (which defaults the volume level to low). As long as you do that, you'll have pretty good sound quality even if it is very loud or close to the stage. I hide the recorder near my lap, and so the chairs block some of the sound, and so I usually give it a boost between 1k-2k afterwards.
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Steve, the recording quality was very bad and we ended up returning the unit. My older sister has an immense album collection we want to convert but we are still looking for a good quality converter and have yet to find one. This has been some years now since we started looking. good luckmc
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Absolutely!!! It's a great live Music recorder. You have the option also of reducing the sensitivity of the Mic for recording sounds in high decibel areas such as concerts , which helps in reducing distortion. In my opinion a collector's item .