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Some of my best friends are pipers - one friend has an email "@piperchicks.com" so you are not alone (except maybe while playing them!)... There are a number of newer recorders in the $400 to 2,000 range that do nicely. Marantz makes one with built in mics, as easy as you can get, will even record directly to MP3s: http://tinyurl.com/52hnu This is as simple as you can get. And still be listenable! I've been involved in extremely long discussions on the Nature recordists elist, so can go into detail if you like... Personally, I use this: http://www.sounddevices.com/products/744t.htm but it might be a bit much for, ahem, a piper, unless they are wealthy and extremely audio competent. About that dynamic range, the alternative to fffff is silence, pretty wide range! <L> Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio 415-883-2689 On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Lani Spahr wrote: > Hello everyone - > > A friend of mine recently asked me for advice on portable sound > recording devices. He's a fellow piper (I know some of you cannot > resist the temptation for making jokes, so now's your chance :-)) who > wants to record his lessons. He said he tried a $100 device that was > probably a voice recorder with less than great results. So what would > you all recommend? - short of not playing the pipes :-) > > Cheers, > Lani