Re: [ARSCLIST] portable sound recording devices

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Lani Spahr" <lani_spahr@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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 :-)
>
Here I can help! Find a good used cassette deck with microphone inputs
(a lot of Sonys have them, as do other major brands)...a couple of mikes
with 1/4" plugs (often sold as "karaoke mikes") and a couple of small
mike stands (cheap at Radio Shack or wotever its called now) unless you
want to try duct-taping them in place.

I did this for about a year+1/2 (until some <expletive deleted> stole
the dommed mikes> and taped almost all my blues band's shows that way; I got
amazingly good quality from that set-up!

Steven C. Barr