[Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice recorder

[Tom Lange]

Hi,
Has Olympus ever put a decent recording level control on their recorders? 
On my Olympus DS50 or whatever it's called, it had three levels, each of 
which introduced some form of limiting, which was cool except in really 
high-volume situations like being right in front of a stage where a live 
band is performing. At really high db levels with maximum limiting it would 
still clip some.  I had an old Superscope stereo cassette machine years ago 
that had excellent level control with attenuation, where I could park myself 
in front of a stage full of cranked-up Marshall amps and the recordings were 
clean as a whistle, no distortion at all, except, of course, what was coming 
out of the Marshalls.  Drums, cymbals, vocals, everything was crisp and 
clear.  I'd love to have a little pocket digital recorder that could get me 
recordings as clean as that old Superscope could do.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>; "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
recorder


>
> Dear Michael,
>
> I have one of these and it works very well.
> I can recharge the batteries with a USB connection from my lap top and 
> transfer files and music to or from the unit.
> It voices all of the menus and I can operate it with just one hand.
> It has 5 recording folders, a music folder and a podcast folder.
> I can use the built in mikes or connect an external mike  and either 
> listen to the built in speakers or with ear phones.
> I use mine every day on the job.
>
> David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael" <bonsai1b at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of accessible 
> electronics and appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
> recorder
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> This morning I spoke to the gentleman at speaktomecatalog.com, and he 
>> informed me that the next model of Olympus digital recorder is now out. 
>> It is the Olympus DM620 and costs $149 and change.  As I understand, the 
>> major difference between it and the 520 is that the newer model has three 
>> internal microphones, and obviously it costs fiftey dollars less.  It 
>> isn't on his site yet so you have to call him to order this model.
>>
>> Interesting.....hope this info helps.
>> Michael
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
>> recorder
>>
>>
>>> About two month ago, I bought this wonderful recorder. It is the Olympus
>>> DM520 Digital Recorder with Talking Menus. It was suggested by someone 
>>> on
>>> this fantastic list.
>>> To buy it from the Speak to Me Catalog go to:
>>> http://www.speaktomecatalog.com/individual.php?item=OLDM
>>> After you buy it go to the Blind Cool Tech Podcast at:
>>> Olympus DM520 And DM420
>>> Last week, a blind friend taught me to transfer the data to (MP3 files, 
>>> recorded with that voice recorder to my computer (Windows XP).
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Oso Calmo" <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp>
>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 4:26 AM
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice 
>>> recorder
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a cheap voice recorder that the blind can use.  It has 
>>>> to
>>>> have USB interface, since I want to transfer the data (MP3 files, for
>>>> example) recorded with that voice recorder to my computer (Windows XP) 
>>>> and
>>>> from my computer to the voice recorder.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
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