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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:54:11 -0500, Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> I've got a gig ghostwriting a book and need to interview the "author" at
> some length. I haven't owned a tape recorder in decades and haven't kept
> up much with the technology.
>
> What's good for this kind of project? Mostly I need to be sure that I'm
> picking up intelligible conversation as voices modulate and people move
> around over a period of a few hours.
I've been very happy using a mini-disc recorder. I get about 4 or 5
hours on a disc (the new Hi-MD format can record up to 45 hours) with
excellent sound quality. I'd highly recommend investing in a decent
microphone that can switch from directional to omni-directional.
One nice about the MD recorders is that it's very easy to split a
track into smaller chunks. That's handy if you need to play a portion
over and over when transcribing.
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