Edirol R-09 WAV/MP3 Recorder

[Jane Simpson]

Update from CHILDES list

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:42:12 -0330
From: Yvan Rose <yrose at mun.ca>
To: Chris Letts <Chris.Letts at newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: Re: Update on R9 digital recorder

Dear Info-CHILDES members,

I fully agree with Chris's conclusion about the EDIROL R9.

Looking for alternatives, I found that the M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96
offers similar features at a similar price, but in what seems to be a
much sturdier construction. I have not fully tested it yet but based
on preliminary trials, the device seems promising.

Yvan Rose
Department of Linguistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland


On 2-Nov-06, at 9:08 AM, Chris Letts wrote:

> I previously reported that we were pleased with the performance of the
> EDIROL R9 digital recorder, but had some misgivings about its
> construction.
>
> Regrettably these have proven to be well founded - we have been
> using 2
> of these machines for about 3 months now, and both have suffered
> damage
> even through relatively light use and careful handling - it looks like
> they are just too flimsy for anything but very controlled use.
>
> Chris Letts,
> Technical Site Manager,
> KGVI Building,
> School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences
>
>

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Tom Honeyman wrote:

> Without having tried one of these (so I could be talking total
> nonsense) generally speaking these smaller devices tend not to have
> great analogue to digital convertors and also tend not to have the
> best mic input plugs either. If anyone has one, we'd love to give a
> sample to our sound guy Frank for his opinion.
>
> I don't think SD cards are a problem.
>
> Joe Blythe was pretty happy with it, and Claire Bowern comments that
> they're good:
>
> http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2006/10/
> recording_naturalistic_convers_1.html
>
> -tom
>
> On 19/10/2006, at 2:28 PM, Robert Hoogenraad wrote:
>
> > We were wondering about any down-side to the Edirol R-09 WAV/MP3
> > Recorder.
> >
> > Is the fact that it uses SD cards a problem?
> >
> > Robert Hoogenraad & Myf Turpin
> > --
> > Robert Hoogenraad, Linguist
> > e-mail: <hoogie at netspace.net.au>
> > PO Box 8285, Alice Springs, NT 0871; Phone (08) 89 52 6564
> >
> > Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs Campus, Desert Knowledge,
> > Room 226
> > CDU, PO Box 795, Alice Springs, NT 0871
> > phone (08) 89595249; fax (08) 89595344
>
>
>
> Tom Honeyman
> PARADISEC Project Co-ordinator
> Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
> Sydney Unit, room 238, Transient Building F12
> University of Sydney NSW 2006
> tel +61 2 9036 9557
> fax +61 2 9351 7572
> tom.honeyman at paradisec.org.au
> http://www.paradisec.org.au
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