1st, you could both overwrite and append on cassettes. The only thing you
couldn't do is insert. 2nd, Olympus, Sony, and all makers of dictation
recorders know how valuable these features are, to easily correct mistakes
on the fly etc. As do the makers of professional music recorders for
computers, since Sonar, ProTools and every other one of them right down to
simple ones like Total Recorder have these features. To take a bunch of
separate files and edit them all together on a PC afterwords would be
unacceptable both in a dictation or a professional audio situation. That's
why these functions exist. In fact, Olympus considers these capabilities
essential on a dictation recorder. So I asked why they weren't available on
any of their high-quality audio models. And they just said: we don't think
you need them there. Again, the question was: do you know of any digital
recorders with insert, append, and overwrite functions that are not using
the highly compressed dictation formats? If you do, please respond, even if
you think these functions are useless. If you don't, there's no need to give
an opinion on whether or not you think one needs these features. It's like
someone asking you if you know of a good Italian restaurant, and you answer
with, I think you should eat Chinese.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
That sort of feature - overighting, inserting or appending has never
worried me as you've never ever been able to do nothing but Overight with
a conventional cassette recorder anyway.
If anyone can stretch their memory back that far <smile> they'll know that
you had a length of tape to record on, you did your recording and if the
end of the tape was reached then you had 2 choices, turn the tape over and
record on the other 2 tracks of the cassette or rewind the tape and
overight what you'd already recorded so the fact that digital recorders
start a new file each time a new recording is started is nothing short of
a feature sent from heaven as you run no risk of wiping what yo've already
recorded and the only limit you have to worry about is just how much room
in memory you have, I don't even think Minidisc recorders offered an
"Insert" or "Append" function, it was up to the user with those recorders
to combine or divide tracks where appropriate and manipulate them thus.
So - given all that - let's see how you can use the present situation to
your advantage.
I use a Zoom H1 and one of the functions of that recorder is marking
"On-The-Fly", if you're recording you can insert a mark into the recording
thus when you load the recording into an editor such as Goldwave or
Amadeus Pro you can go to the markers you've made in your recording.
Each new recording starts a new file so just use your sound editor on your
computer to load where appropriate, make new files with your editor and
import the files from your recorder adding them where necessary, appending
where necessary and inserting where necessary.
As for cheap digital audio recorders? Well I've had my Zoom H1 for 3 years
and its still going strong, simple operation, no menu system and cheap at
under $100.00 though you may like to purchase the accessary pack and I
think that costs around $50.00 extra but well worth it.
On 04/08/2013, at 3:46 AM, Dave Scrimenti <dscri...@icloud.com> wrote:
Does anyone know of a good-sounding digital recorder that has the simple
features of a cheap cassette recorder such as overwrite and append? I
have an Olympus LS7 which makes fine recordings, but every time you hit
record, you start a new recording. Unbelievably, there's no way to
append, overwrite, or insert in to an existing recording. The only
Olympus models that have these obvious and necessary features are on
their dictation machines, which unfortunately only record in a highly
compressed format. I tried the Bookport DT, but it was so slow in its
responsiveness as to be almost unusable. If they improve the processing
power, it would be great.
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