[Janak Parekh]

http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html

Concert lovers, rejoice! You can now buy a professional-grade, PDA-based recording solution if you have a Pocket PC.



"The PDA-based PDAudio will operate on rechargeable batteries for more than enough time to record a concert, and be able to quickly transfer audio data to a laptop/desktop computer (PC or Mac) via removable solid-state memory cards (currently available in sizes up to 4 GB from Lexar), removable PC Card hard drives (from Toshiba, Kingston and CMS: 2 and 5GB available now), CF Card hard disk drives (1 GB currently and up to 4 GB from Hitachi/IBM come Fall '03, 2.4 GB from MagicStor and 4.7 GB by the end of 2003), high capacity external 2.5" hard drives (40 GB or more) using the PC Card interface (see Addonics at addonics.com), SD cards (up to 1 GB from SanDisk and Panasonic) and via wired and wireless local area networks."

They go on to say that "The combination of the PDAudio-CF, HP 2215 and an SD memory card is the smallest high resolution digital audio recorder in the world." So cool!

[Janak Parekh]

http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html

Concert lovers, rejoice! You can now buy a professional-grade, PDA-based recording solution if you have a Pocket PC.



"The PDA-based PDAudio will operate on rechargeable batteries for more than enough time to record a concert, and be able to quickly transfer audio data to a laptop/desktop computer (PC or Mac) via removable solid-state memory cards (currently available in sizes up to 4 GB from Lexar), removable PC Card hard drives (from Toshiba, Kingston and CMS: 2 and 5GB available now), CF Card hard disk drives (1 GB currently and up to 4 GB from Hitachi/IBM come Fall '03, 2.4 GB from MagicStor and 4.7 GB by the end of 2003), high capacity external 2.5" hard drives (40 GB or more) using the PC Card interface (see Addonics at addonics.com), SD cards (up to 1 GB from SanDisk and Panasonic) and via wired and wireless local area networks."

They go on to say that "The combination of the PDAudio-CF, HP 2215 and an SD memory card is the smallest high resolution digital audio recorder in the world." So cool!

[wizardmaster2k]

8) it sounds cool, but i would have no need for it. it is always nice to see new things comming out for our "toys"

[dean_shan]

I read about this the other day (friday I think) on someone on PPCT posted about it. I like to make recordings a lot. I would like to get this but it has a very high price tag.

[Kevin Daly]

I hesitate to mention this, but might was well point out that those people who are given to making bootleg recordings of concerts (among whom I am not numbered, in case you're wondering) would love this.

[Scott R]

Very cool indeed. After hunting through their web page, it looks like it costs $200 including Linux software (for flashed iPaqs, etc.). If you want PPC software to use it, it looks like that costs extra (from a variety of developers). It has a coax and digital input, so if you want to record a live performance using a high quality mic, they also sell Mic2496, a dual mic pre-amp/A-to-D convertor. That adds another "brick" to carry and it's very expensive at $499. As such, I'm not sure how cost effective (or small) this would be compared to using a small DAT recorder and microphone, though you wouldn't be able to edit the samples on the go with that. It's been so long since I've toyed with my electronic recording studio gear that I'm not up-to-date on this sort of technology.

Scott

[gpspassion]

A nice improvement over the built-in microphone for sure, but I'd settle for a good quality stereo mic built into a CF card...coupled wth an analog stereo input, especially if it can be sold for $50 :idea:

I might be missing something here, but this type of setup is only really useful if you're going digital to digital, i.e not for a live recording where the above setup would make much more sense. I haven't looked into this for a while but I'm pretty positive you can find some very good analog mic's...

[GadgetDave]

But if you're recording a concert that you're performing (legitimately), you may already have a digital out on the board that you can just plug in ... and get the whole concert. On the other hand, if you've got full equipment, what's a rack-mounted DAT add? :wink:

Still kinda cool ...

[gpspassion]

Yeah, like you say, if you have access to the digital out of the board, you probably don't need an iPaq...a laptop will do the trick!

Again, I hope these guys come out with an analog version for $50 one of these days, they'd probably sell a ton.

[townsendtribe]

I don't know about recording a concert (I don't get out much) but something like this would be very helpfull to record the Sunday service (a little more interesting to me).

Anyone have any good information on converting this content for streaming off the web?

[ron_mason_1972]

for a full recording & editing package, look at http://www.PocketREC.com (up to 48khz, 16bit mono at a standard iPAQ with external microphone without extra sound card)

O.k. - they make industrial solution (broadcast and media), but it has all you need for audio recording & editing while you are on the go!

btw: they have said a few weeks ago that they will support the pdaudio card, too