Piano Forum
Piano Board => Audition Room => Topic started by: Derek on May 24, 2005, 02:49:51 AM
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Hey everyone, here's a device which not only produces high quality recordings but would make uploading one's work to the web even easier:
https://www.edirol.com/products/info/r1.html
Make sure to check out the piano wav made with its internal microphone. Beautiful!
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Did you recorded the pieces you posted here with this device?
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Oh dear me, no. I should have made that clear. I used a wal mart microphone and a talk boy for everything here.
But definitely check out Edirol's own samples made with that device. Its amazing. I want one.
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was looking for the price. do you know about how much they cost?
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was looking for the price. do you know about how much they cost?
around $440 (as of today; I just googled it)
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I bought the R-1 two months ago. It is very handy. Pianists need a portable recorder. This one is more expensive than mini-disc, but just to get the recording digital and to be able to transfer it to a computer is worth it! I have already my harddisk full of recordings.
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nordlys: I'm under the impression since the R-1 has no moving parts, there is absolutely zero hiss in recordings it produces. Did your mini disc by comparison produce any hiss in recording? I think its nice to record directly to a computer chip anyway, because then I'm completely at liberty to burn the recording to a disk or trash it without wasting a mini disc or cd.
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nordlys: I'm under the impression since the R-1 has no moving parts, there is absolutely zero hiss in recordings it produces. Did your mini disc by comparison produce any hiss in recording? I think its nice to record directly to a computer chip anyway, because then I'm completely at liberty to burn the recording to a disk or trash it without wasting a mini disc or cd.
The R-1 has no moving parts. It records to a memory card. But to say there is zero hiss is not true, because there definitely is hiss. I guess this depends on the built-in microphone parts and so on, which are probably good but not of top quality. It doesn't give a professional recording, but the quality is good! Remember, it creates 16bit or 24bit wav in contrast to the mini-disc which uses a compressed format. And this is one of the few portable recorders which exist. I imagine more will come, and replace the mini-disc.
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I'm sure its a hell of a lot better than a Tiger Talkboy. I'd imagine the hiss is FAR less pronounced in the R-1 than in tape recorders.
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nordlys: do you use linux perchance? I'm thinking of using linux on my PC, but I want to make absolutely certain I can use the R-1 before I actually do that. I suppose I could do a dual boot, but it'd be nice to know I can use it in linux.
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I don't use linux, but I have tried the R-1 with linux. So I know that it is possible to transfer files through the USB from the R-1 to linux.
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You know, since we're talking about Edirol, I was thinking of getting one of these:
https://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua25.html
Does anyone have any experience with them?