 "Practical buys." | 2009-09-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: AHNF56U8NMHK1 |
I love amazon; don't get me wrong, but if you're going to purchase this, you can get it for $99.00 + free shipping BRAND NEW from Office Max. Visit their website. I think we should all be able to save money and get a high-quality product.
Good luck! |
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 "Disappointed" | 2009-03-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: APLKPI24X9QVZ |
| I am very happy with the WS-311M except for one very serious problem, battery life. The LED shows full battery, but the recorder will fail showing "system check". Replace the battery and it's okay. No reliable indication of battery life. |
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| "If you are a PICKY musian type, then READ this, ignore the rest!" | 2009-02-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1PD6JY0O06XWV |
| I will make this as short as possible for other very picky musician types. I drove myself crazy trying to decide what to buy, I finally decided on this recorder and I am incredibly pleased. Anyone who says negative things about it probably doesn't have the patience to read the manual. The built-in mics are very good, enough to CLEARLY record ideas, music or interviews etc., but if you use something like a Sony ECM-MS907 mic you will be totally blown away, I am not kidding. The sampling rate is 44.1 khz on the highest setting (which I have not even used yet, but yes, it's THAT good) which is CD quality (in theory). In practice, because it compresses the files, it's not CD but it's very, very good. BTW, with a good mic, the background noise or 'hiss' is pretty much nil, (the built-in mics are a bit more noisy but easily tolerable) quite amazing. With a good mic, you could take this to a club or record your band and it would be extremely good quality. If I were to go up to what I felt is the next level, I would buy the ZOOM H4 which costs quite a bit more but looks amazing. For the bucks though, this unit is excellent. Again, don't be scared off by negative comments. It is very easy to use but you should really take about 30 minutes to 1 good hour to read the manual. The negatives are that 1)I can't record line-in from like a stereo mini-plug, seems to be some annoying impedance problem (overloading) so if you want to record the radio, you'll have to set it in front of your blaster or speakers to record whatever show which kind of sucks. 2) The headphone output volume could be louder but considering the size, hey... 3)It is VERY small (3 and 3/4"H X 1 and 1/2"W X 3/8"D) You'll be shocked at how small it is. It's like it was designed by elves so everything is painfully small - you get used to it but if your vision is not 20-20, you'll need your reading glasses to use it but then everything is like that these days but I aint kidding, this thing is TINY. |
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| "Digital recorder" | 2009-01-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1ZVPZNF3TGABM |
| Excellent. Works great. Used it for all my classes during last sememster and will be this semester. Would highly recommend it to others. |
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| "love it" | 2008-12-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: APN6R5FDYGZG2 |
i am in an acoustic instrumental band and the guitarist and i (violin) needed something to record as we write our music, so we can go back to it, remember it, modify it, work on it until it's done. or he can record his part, and i can listen to it so i can write mine ...
this recorder is fantastic for that. the clarity is unbelievable. i even brought it to a full band practice with probably 6+ musicians including drums and put it on the floor to record practice, and the result wasn't perfect sound quality, but totally captured the sound and feel for my own purposes.
when in a pinch, our band has even uploaded recordings of songs from this recorder onto our myspace page. if you want to hear the sound quality (recorded in the bathroom for acoustics!) go to www.myspace.com/starfkradium and listen to "the minuet"
we love it. |
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| "Quality Product. Recommended. " | 2008-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2FZI3SMNNZ6KG |
| Purchased product after several weeks of research a few weeks ago; for use in large lecture hall at Law School; though I sit in the front of the class nearest the professor, I doubt product couldn't be used anywhere in the hall if you pleased; I am a MAC user; simply download FLIP FOR MAC for free at MAC Downloads which allows you to play the WAV files; connect product to MAC and just click and drag files into a folder; I've designated folders respectively for Civ. Pro and Contracts; be aware of the voice filter settings and the noise canceling option: as both tend to drain the battery; otherwise you'll run for nearly 8-10 hours on one AAA. Good luck with the search, but you have landed on a nice product here. |
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