Sony MZM200 Professional Portable Hi MD Recorder Reviews
This little thing is great. For listening, the digital amp sounds really good. Better than that of an iPod which is rated for 2x as much power and many people acclaim. Recording quality is excellent, its like having a cd recorder in your pocket. The supplied micorphone makes really clear recordings. For live shows, as an amateur taper I couldn't be happier with it with the exception that it doesn't pick up as much bass as I would like and the separation is nothing to write home about, but you won't really have much luck finding something as small that does a better job, go and get another plug in power mic or use a power module for a higher quality mic. One con about the mic is that the wire is a little short, but its nothing a 5 dollar trip to the Shack won't fix.The player itself is really small, light and sturdy. It looks great and feels dense and compact in your hand. My only gripes are 1. The FF/FR/Pause/Play switch on the side feels fragile. 2. There are functions on the recorder only accessible from the supplied remote such as track titling and sound processing.The sound processing settings are pretty standard but it does have a feature that i really enjoy. This is the dynamic volume normalizer function. I listen to alot of recordings of live shows and it really helps to smooth out the sound of the recording in times when you can tell someone walked in front of the mic or when the taper moved, etc. I think it makes some recordings sound more consistent. All in all, this is a very versatile little gadget, it fits in your pocket, can be taken anywhere and creates exceptional 'tapes'.br /br /*Updated: I've had it for a few months now and my usual set up at concerts and music festivals is the recorder in my pocket, a longer mic cable up to the mic on my hat. This makes great recordings! I couldn't be happier with it. The tapes you can make sound just about as good as tapes I listen to that were recorded on equipment where the mic alone cost 3x more than this whole package. Voice recording is of very high quality and the mic does a great job of picking up voice from across the room, great for lectures.br /br /Another feature not mentioned often is that this recorder will format old 74/80 minute MD's into HI-MD format. This almost triples the capacity of old MD's which are more affordable than the HI-MD's (about a dollar eighty vs. around 5 dollars for the Hi-MD discs).
Sony MZM200 Professional Portable Hi MD Recorder Feature
- Compatible with both Hi-MD media and standard MiniDisc media
- Hi-MD selectable recording times provides 94 minutes of uncompressed PCM linear audio, or up to 34 hours of ATRAC3plus compressed audio
- Hi-MD self record uploading allows transferring self-recordings onto a computer and storing them as a .wav file
- Conventional MD recording modes (SP, LP2 and LP4) allow making conventional MD recordings when playback compatibility with MD deck
- Conventional MD self-recordings can be uploaded via USB 2.0 to WIN PC using supplied Sonic Stage software (Excludes EMD content)
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Far from dead - Gilbert Fernandes -
2010 and I just bought a MZ-RH1. Why the hell did I do that ?br /Because it does record. Simply put. I play guitar, bass, and I want to have a small music player that can record with me. And I am not interested in something that records to a lossy compression format like MP3. The iPod and most players are part of that read-only culture and I want to go back to the read and write culture our societies have known for centuries if not more. Go check the "Larry Lessig's read-only culture" presentation. We must carry players that do record, with no restrictions. We must go back to having the culture be our property and no longer accept an imposed read-only culture from majors. The minidisc is a possible path. I record sounds, music. I record bass lines and guitar lines and exchange the minidisc where this has been recorded using PCM (no lossy compression). We move files to PC and back. The minidisc is heavily used in some creatives circles, and being a niche isn't a problem. But the iPod and read-only culture, thanks but no thanks. Just spent 300 euro on a brand new MZ-RH1, got a MZ-R55, over 100 MiniDiscs here, used them as a journalist for years, as a musician for over 10 years and people are just amazed by what we can do with a recording portable device. My friends have iPods, and read-only players, and they love the MiniDisc. The way I can record anything anywhere, swap disks and the sound quality. DJs and consumers bought vinyl disks, and after years of the press explaining to us the vinyl was dead, dead, and dead well. Here in Paris we got shops full of vinyl disks, DJs use them and people like the sound. The Minidisc is far from dead, and what matters is : a portable, small recorder with PCM no-lossy compression, you carry everywhere and doubles as a media player. USB to connect, drop music and PC files, pictures, whatever. Record, play, create.
Nov 02, 2010 14:24:03
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