# Accessible stereo recorder

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by chaman_1167 (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 06-Aug-2007 9:41:36

hello guys. I attend a class to learn the indian drums every week. i want to be able to record my classes. do you people know of any good and cheap stereo recorders in the UK?.
if you do please either post to this forum or just send me a private message. thanks

## Post 2 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2007 20:46:03

The olympus DS series is accesible and has talking menus. If you go to speaktomecatalog.com and find the ds50 you can see a good description.

## Post 3 by Darrell Shandrow (Generic Zoner) on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2007 2:56:21

The DS50 is a great recorder for speech, but I think that it falls down a bit on music. I just used it this weekend to record some pipe organ music in the old Mormon Tabernacle building on Temple Square and it sounded pretty decent, but not quite as good as I would've liked. I knew this going in; I should've taken something a bit more heavy hitting for the job.
All that to say that I think the Edirol R-1 (now discontinued) or the Edirol R-09 (current) would be great, reasonably accessible choices for stereo recorders for both music and spoken audio. Check out BlindCoolTech.com for some demonstrations.

## Post 4 by chaman_1167 (Generic Zoner) on Sunday, 12-Aug-2007 16:27:55

yes i have looked at those they are great recorders but the price is a bit high

## Post 5 by Nick6489 (11 years a Zoner) on Sunday, 12-Aug-2007 21:38:29

Then Zoom H2 or H4, if you don't have issues with learning a few menus.

## Post 6 by singingsensation (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 11-Apr-2010 18:22:21

Is the Edirol R-09 or the Edirol R-09 HR good for recording lessons? I am going to start college in the fall and will need a really good recorder for recording my flute lessons with my flute professor, lectures, and other things.
Thanks!
Macy

## Post 7 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Monday, 12-Apr-2010 10:30:14

Then The Zoom would make those flute lessons sound as if you were in the room, in a live concert as part of an audience when you listen back to them later, seriously, although the Zoom is somewhat bulky, measuring almost, twice the length and width of the Olympus recorders, but surround sound is the key here. I would definitely go for the Zoom myself if I were recording say, my own guitar lessons, because it has its own tripod and everything which you screw in the end, you can then have it upright on a table or something close by and it will pick up everything in the most outstanding quality recordings, since it has an x-shape of no less than 4, microphones inside the mesh grill at the opposite end to the tripod. That's why I'd say the Zoom is probably the best kind of accessible recorder you could wish to get your hands on, but the Olympus doesn't do such a bad job either. The DS-75 is in fact, almost as good as The Zoom, but minus the size and weight of The Zoom for more discrete, hush hush stuff, lol.
Jen.

## Post 8 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 12-Apr-2010 11:45:31

Problem with the Zoom models though is that the menus wrap. I think on the H4 the main menu doesn't wrap but the submenus do, but apparently on the H2 all the menus wrap. That's one thing I like about the Edirol R09. The menus don't wrap. Although I would prefer a recorder with spoken menus.

## Post 9 by singingsensation (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 07-May-2010 23:35:31

I'll look at them. Thanks!
Macy