Audio Production

Audio - Field Recording Equipment

Edirol portable digital audio recorders
Handheld recorder with built-in stereo mic
AA batteries or AC adapter
Records in WAV or MP3 formats to SD card
USB cable to connect to computer & drag files over

demo video clip

Edirol R-09 (1Gb SD card)
MP017 - Vernon
MP027 - Salmon Arm
MP037 - Penticton
MP047 - Kelowna
MP057 - Kelowna
MP067 - Kelowna

Help: R-09 Manual or Barebones Guide

Edirol R-09HR (512Mb SD card & internal speaker)
MP127 - Kelowna
MP137 - Kelowna

Help: R-09HR Manual or Barebones Guide

AKG K24p headphones
-these headphones are in the case with the Edirol R-09

Zoom Digital Handy Recorder

Built-in stereo microphone.
Records in WAV and MP3 formats onto 512MB SD memory card.
USB cable connects to computer - just drag files over.
Uses 2xAA batteries for up to 4hrs of recording time.
Also has AC adapter for longer recording time.

MP097 - H2 - Kelowna
MP107 - H2 - Kelowna
MP117 - H4 - Kelowna

Help:  H2 Manual
           H4 Manual

Post-production software:
Download http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (don't use Beta version yet)
Be sure to download and install the LAME mp3 encoder as well.

Audacity will open the files you record on the R-09. You can edit and export them. Consider changing the default mp3 preferences in Audacity to make smaller files. Using mono instead of stereo makes the download twice as fast. Using 22KHz instead of 44KHZ makes it twice as fast again. Stick with 16-bit - 8 bit is very noisy. Spoken word seems to do just fine at an mp3 bit rate of 64 or even 48.