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With the supplied batteries, three hours of recording time was all I could get. I was expecting more like eight - I'd like to set it in a corner and forget it, not have to keep feeding it batteries (we usually have no available AC power). The sound was "chirpy" - lots of digital artifacts and cutouts. And lots of clinking and clunking - it seems to do a lot better at recording erroneous sound than the sound I'd like to capture.
I concur with the other 5 star reviews. I used the DR-07 to record our band practicing. The first time I used it in MP3 mode with the auto limiter engaged and got "pumping" from the limiter.
I looked at a variety of compact flash-memory recorders. Prices ranged from $175 to $500. I decided to get my feet wet with a unit at the lower end of the range, and narrowed my search down to the Zoom H2 and the Tascam DR-07. The Zoom unit looked and felt delicate, though reviews on this site and elsewhere were positive.
I've been playing music for years, but I will readily admit that I don't know much about recording and get frustrated with it very easily. That being said, the DR-07 is really easy to use, makes high quality recordings (about as good as you can expect for a field recorder that isn't independently recording individual instruments), and is (obviously) extremely portable. This recorder isn't going to handle every single recording need that a band is ever going to have, but it makes great room recordings, and it's really easy to use, so it's easy to pull it out and turn it on really quickly if you come up with a song idea and just want to get a quick recording of it.
I beg to differ a little bit here. I bought a DR-07 44 days ago and it had three problems. The level meters would cut by 24db and then come back up 24db randomly about every twenty to thirty seconds while the audio input was constant.
I've been looking a long time for a relatively inexpensive device that I can use to record my students during orchestra class and lessons, with the possibility of posting those recordings to our website. I got the DR-07 a few days ago and so far, it is exactly what I was looking for. It's extremely easy to use (almost intuitive, after a quick browse through the manual), and by plugging my classroom stereo into the headphone port, I can play back recordings immediately for the entire class.
But you get what you pay for, and you get a nice little recording device, perfect for most applications, epically recording musical ideas while away from the studio. However, for low level recordings such as acoustic guitar, look closer at the Sony PCM-D50, that's what I'm switching to for my use. Here are my pros and cons of the DR07:
In fact, that 2GB file size limit is the only possible area of concern for anyone using this, at least if you want to capture a lengthy performance in lossless WAV format. I did not experiment with the on-the-fly MP3 recording it does, but if you set it to 128KBPS, you can expect over 10 times as much recording time, due to the compression ratio. Of course, the batteries would likely give out before that ~30 hours of nonstop recording, so anyone wanting to do that would be advised to buy the Tascam AC adapter also sold here. Oh, I also LOVE the ease with which Tascam made it to set the levels, where you simply hit the record button once, which turns on the microphones without starting recording, allowing you to listen on headphones to adjust those levels, then hit record again to start the recording.
I bought a Tascam DR-07 , while I was looking for an MP3 player, that records from microphone and line-input as well. It uses SD cards.
The DR-07 does everything Tascam claims and more. It's easy to use and the recordings sound great.
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