At 11:15 AM 2010-03-18, [log in to unmask] wrote: >I have had good results with my Olympus LS-10 but it is not the >cheapest of the lot. About $400 street perhaps....I haven't priced >one in a while. > >It has NOT been service free for me however. Just a good sound machine. That is bad news. What happened? I have been considering an Olympus LS-10 or LS-20 for its smaller size and possibly better sound (though I think the LS-10 may have a low frequency rolloff. I have bought two Zoom H2s -- one for me and one for my church. So far, the only failure has been that some combination of my younger son and another teen board operator managed to break the card slot door -- it's now easier to change cards is the only result. We use it to record all services and the MP3s of the sermons are a result of the line-level inputs ( www.trinityaurora.ca ). We have been doing this for the last year, changing the SDHC card every week--sometimes more often. We have a pair of 8 GB cards (8 hours) that we cycle between. My older son has been using my H2 and has not hurt it yet. He also got it operating easily and figured it out easily with no instruction from me and I don't think he opened the manual. Here is a caution about the line-level inputs on the H2. We use a separate knob on the main stereo output of the Yamaha mixer at the church to set the input level for the Zoom. http://richardhess.com/notes/2009/04/13/zoom-h-2-line-input/ Cheers, Richard >joe salerno > > >Jones, Randye wrote: >>Good morning. >>I'm looking for a small digital recorder that will a good job of >>capturing the singing voice. Most I've seen are more suited to >>recording speech. Any suggestions? BTW, price *is* an object. >>Thanks, Randye >>-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- >> | | Randye Jones >> | ) | Listening Room Supervisor >> / | | Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA 50112 >>( | ) | [log in to unmask] >> | | Phone: 641-269-3365 FAX: 641-269-4283 > >Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] >Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX >Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm >Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.