ruairioflaherty
Well-known member
Hey all,
my apologies if this is a repeat of material already covered here but I have very little time at the moment to search here or do proper research elsewhere.
My wife is heading down to Antartica on Friday for a 1 month trip aboard a ship which is a mix of scientists, some paying guests and some very lucky schoolkids. She is a writer and the opportunity to gather material for a radio documentary for our national broadcaster has come up in the last few days. She may be able to get a recorder from the broadcaster but if not she will probably need to purchase something before Friday.
She needs a handheld digital recorder with the following features (if such a thing exists)
-robust (she hopes to use this on deck to capture whale/bird sounds etc) so there will be issues of cold and moisture and condensation when she goes back inside
-Good SNR for capturing lowlevel sounds (they will be spending overnights on the continent)
-swappable memory cards
-easy to dump files onto her mac with USB would be great
-some form of windscreens to enable use in windy conditions
-Easy to use
-Good sound
The trickiest thing will be getting something that can handle the windy conditions without getting special accessories.
My wife doesn't know what she needs and I'm too busy right now to devote hours to proper research - it's coming up on 2am here and I'm working on mixes in the studio, at 7am I have to leave for meetings for my day job
Don't you just love the music business :green:
If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. The purchase will have to be made tomorrow or Thursday in a nearby city.
Cheers,
Ruairi
my apologies if this is a repeat of material already covered here but I have very little time at the moment to search here or do proper research elsewhere.
My wife is heading down to Antartica on Friday for a 1 month trip aboard a ship which is a mix of scientists, some paying guests and some very lucky schoolkids. She is a writer and the opportunity to gather material for a radio documentary for our national broadcaster has come up in the last few days. She may be able to get a recorder from the broadcaster but if not she will probably need to purchase something before Friday.
She needs a handheld digital recorder with the following features (if such a thing exists)
-robust (she hopes to use this on deck to capture whale/bird sounds etc) so there will be issues of cold and moisture and condensation when she goes back inside
-Good SNR for capturing lowlevel sounds (they will be spending overnights on the continent)
-swappable memory cards
-easy to dump files onto her mac with USB would be great
-some form of windscreens to enable use in windy conditions
-Easy to use
-Good sound
The trickiest thing will be getting something that can handle the windy conditions without getting special accessories.
My wife doesn't know what she needs and I'm too busy right now to devote hours to proper research - it's coming up on 2am here and I'm working on mixes in the studio, at 7am I have to leave for meetings for my day job
Don't you just love the music business :green:
If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. The purchase will have to be made tomorrow or Thursday in a nearby city.
Cheers,
Ruairi