Portable digital audio recorder designed for voice & audio recording.
The Musicians Gear Hand Held Recorder is equipped with leading edge digital recording technology, excellent sound quality and is easy to operate. It's a recorder suitable for acoustic instruments, electric guitars, keyboards, MP3 players, interviews, education, band rehearsal, and field recordings.
This digital recorder comes with 128MB flash memory built in and also features an SD memory card slot that will accept 16MB - 4GB SD cards. (Does not accept SDHC cards). Pocket Record also comes with a one year limited warranty.
Musician's Gear Hand-Held Stereo Digital Recorder Features:
Stereo built-in condenser microphones
Supports high-quality 44.1kHz wav and MP3 recording formats
Stereo audio inputs
Microphone, guitar & line-in recording sources
Volume control for input and output level adjustment
Stereo earphone jack
Built-in 128Mb flash memory
Equipped with an expanded memory slot for SD cards up to 4GB (Does not accept SDHC cards)
USB port for computer connection and DC power in
Works with either two AA batteries or a 5V DC adapter (sold separately)
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Musician's Gear Hand-Held Stereo Digital Recorder Specifications:
Posted by Charles Darwin from New York City on Feb 6, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: A good listner!
Reviewer's Play Style: None
This device works very inconsistently and can not be relied on for any recording. I would have said cannot be relied on for "serious recording" but that should be assumed. This device simply can not be relied on for anything. You don't know when it is going to engage and work and when it is not going to engage. There's supposed to be a way to "pause" recordering but what it does is shut off the device. Because it is digital, this means you have to reboot which takes at least 12 or so seconds and by this time you have missed what you want to resume recordering. This is only one example of what's wrong with the device. It sometimes changes tracks on its on and you lose your place where you were recording. When you do get it to work, the play back volume is extremely low. You could not play it back to a group in a room because anyone more than five feet away wouldn't hear it, even if it you turn it all the way up to a setting on the device of "20." And after doing so, the device defaults to a lower volume setting of "16." You get higher volume with a microcasset recorder. I called their 800 number which in their booklet is labled "customer support." Far from it. When I said that I was having problems understanding the operation the person who answered kept on repeating to "read the instructions." I said I did, but it still seemingly did not always work. He said they were not there to teach how to operate the thing but only to "troubleshoot problems." He said they didn't have time to help with the operation, "only troubleshoot!" I said I was indeed having such problems but he kept repeating to "read the instructions we only troubleshoot." The instruction booklet is very poor. It is full of typos, is not paginated but in many places refers to other pages by number and you don't know what the heck they are refering to. This is indeed junk. Do not buy it. It appears that this device is made in America. Figures! No wonder we're loosing the trade wars.
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Good Unit for certain purposes -- tricky on Linux
Posted by Onix from Ohio on Jan 27, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Variety
I bought this American Audio Pocket Recorder 6 months ago as an inexpensive way to digitize my wife's sermons (she is a pastor). The unit works great for our purpose. I connected it via 1/4" plug to the one of the Auxiliary outputs of our church mixing console, and the sound quality (recording as .mp3) is good.
Since then, I have also recorded some band practices through the mixer, and one concert. In each case, the results were usable for distribution or posting online. We have used both the internal memory and the HCSD card with equally good results.
I have also used the unit successfully to record meetings using the built-in microphones, and I have used it to transfer some cassette recordings I have to mp3 format (some of which I later converted to ogg vorbis). So the unit suits my needs well.
Here are some caveauts, however. I use Linux and Audacity for my audio editing. When trying to transfer the recordings to my Linux based computers, I experienced the same corruption problems mentioned by a previous reviewer who was using Windows -- the audio would skip, stutter, get mixed with other tracks, repeat several sections.
I isolated the problem to USB speed. The Americn Audio Pocket Recorder's USB transfer speed is not as fast as many computers need them to be by default.
I posted the Linux work-around at http://intdigital.net/tutorials/linux/usb-file-corruption and hope this will help other users who experience the same problem.
With this workaround, the Unit was an exceptionally great value.
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not worth the trouble
Posted by Rodney from tennessee on Jan 25, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: active musicain
Reviewer's Play Style: country
I received this recorder about 3 months ago. At first it was working fine. After about 4 uses it started locking up. It would record fine, levels seemed to be picking up normal. Then on playback, after 5 or 6 secs it would lock up. After finally taking the batteries out just to get it to shut off, it locked up agian. I tried different folders and different methods of recording, straight mic, open mic, PA, etc. nothing could make the unit work correctly. Very dissapointed in this product. Spend a little more and get a good quality recorder.
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It's functional
Posted by dman_chief from Tampa Bay on Dec 30, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative, church
I have read other reviews of other users having trouble with the item freezing up or locking up, and I have never had that problem. For some odd reason or another, there are eight folders that you can store your recordings in. I'm not sure why the product does this, but I have never needed anything beyond "Folder 1" (see the instruction manual for more info about this). I use a genuine SD card, and after I have recorded whatever it is I need to record, I will transfer the file to my computer and delete it off the SD card before putting it back into the recorder for recording my next little gem. I don't know if this is the 'magic formula' for success for this product, but following these steps have never given me any problems of any kind. I will do several takes in a row of something that I want to record (be it a drum track, a bass riff, whatever), and will have no problem storing multiple recordings before transferring them to the computer.
My main negative comment would be that the quality of the built-in or included external mics are not all that great. They're just ok. I have not tried to connect a 'real' mic via xlr to 1/4" adapter yet, and not sure if this would make a difference in the quality or not. Someday I will try it.
My main gripe is that at the beginning and end of EVERY recording, there is a loud or crunch noise when the record button or stop button are pushed. I do not have software to "trim" the recording of this noise, so it is quite abrasive to me.
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Nothing but bugs...
Posted by JasonCraigCountry from Kansas City, MO on Dec 22, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock and Country
I too thought, "wow, what a bargain...I can use this to capture my ideas on the fly." Turns out you can only capture your ideas if the recorder isn't constantly locking up. This thing works intermittently, and when it does work, the recording quality is subpar. I can't in good conscience recommend this to anybody but those who love troubleshooting buggy equipment. Oh, and my experience is with two separate units--I returned the first one for all the issues, and the second one was just as bad. A definite no!
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