Slashdot Mirror
Portable Digital Voice Recorders for a Singer?
Geek Singer asks: "I've had classical singing lessons for a while now and managed to advance to a level where hearing my own lessons is important for developing my skills. Here in Europe many singers use MiniDisc recorders. As a geek I think that MD recorders are DRM-encumbered, clumsy, slow and obsolete. Especially moving the recordings into my computer can get very troublesome due to nasty restrictions cast by Sony. For these reasons I need to have something else than a MD recorder. There are various portable MP3 players that have a voice recording capability, but I've found none that have all the properties I need: low price, good recording quality, line-in recording, excellent battery life, a good interface, support for Linux or Mac OS X and enough space for tens of hours of decent quality voice recordings or a slot for an exchangeable memory card. I've already checked numerous manufacturers including iRiver. Their players are great, except that the HD-models are too expensive and the flash-based models don't have a memory card slot. What portable digital voice recorders do you suggest?"
*Recording Media: Flash Memory Built-In 32MB*
not quite the thing for him(judging from what he wrote into the article).
though I think he should just get a decent MD(keyword being a decent and decent meaning coming with usable connectors and without being limited intentionally too much).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
A vocalist might be someone who raps, bebops (think Fat Boys from the '80s), screams (think heavy metal), yodels, grunts, gurgles, burps, laughs, cries, hiccups, hoots, screeches, squawks, moans, barks, chirps, makes robot sounds, or does anything else with his vocal cords. If you want to lower your label to include the gutteral possibilities of a vocalist, go right ahead.
No, seriously... if you're a singer, just call yourself a singer. There's no shame in that.