Comments on: Tascam announces DR-1 portable audio recorder for $299

By: José Luis

José Luis — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:16:43 +0000

Hi, Brad Linder!

Yamaha has introduced its portable recorder too, the "Pocketrak 2G":

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=5915

http://www.mtechmarketing.com/YAMA_011708_Pocketrak2G.html

Best regrads,

José Luis

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:16:42 +0000

Anyone cares to share the frequency response of the internal microphones in this Tascam DR-1?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:08:53 +0000

Anyone cares to share the frequency response of the internal microphones in this Tascam DR-1?

By: peeder

peeder — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:52:37 +0000

Yes I received a DR-1 today and it works quite well...audio quality is very fine. The unit is relatively large I think but very light. The biggest gaffe is there's no tripod mount BAD BAD BAD. There's a little hole for a lanyard but that's it. I mounted it with rubber bands. A soft case is included but no windscreen and wind noise will be a problem, so you'll have to fashion one.

This thing is really designed for songwriters I think...and for them it's absolutely the ideal scratch pad. No complexity like the Zooms, this just uses non-destructive sound-on-sound overdubbing, which works quite well in practice. I record the guitar through the internal mics and plug a dynamic mic into the input 2 to sing over the guitar on the second pass. It even can print effects...the only good ones being the RevHall and RevLive reverbs, but that's a big plus in taking out the sound of your bedroom.

It's a little fiddly with the controls, but straightforward enough. It seems to work OK but did hang up on poweroff once already. To use the tuner you need to be in monitor mode btw...manual doesn't say that. Power on and off times are good...3-4 seconds or something. Features auto power off, momentary backlight, good metering, adjustable low cut filter, etc.

But the usefulness and ease for the songwriter is tops. If you can get the perfect takes down, you could make a whole CD on just this doodad, and with mastery, it wouldn't even sound bad.