Comments on: A short review of the Tascam DR-1 https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Anonymous https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-248 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:14:57 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-248 I've owned this recorder for almost a year now. Totally impressed with its warm sound and loss hiss. I record loud concerts and use the LINE-IN. The Pre/ADC is this puppy is top notch. I ditched the original Edirol R09 because I thought the DR-1 sounded much, much better. The biggest test was recording direct from a Soundboard and it handled it great! No crackling in the SBD recording at all.

Only con: Needs an auto increment recording feature for when a file hits 2GB limit.

]]> By: Anonymous https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-567 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:01:11 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-567 As for the 2GB limit: OS 2.0 solves this problem, as well as introducinng some nice features.

]]> By: Anonymous https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-568 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:59:25 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-568 I’ve been using this recorder for some months, now, and I love how clean and cleaar it is when using the internal mics for capturing soundscapes and university lecturers.

Yesterday I used it with the CMC-8 mini-mics sold by Sound Professionals (based on the ES943 capsules) and an external 9V battery module, and I was really surprised to see how clean it sounded, and how well it could manage dynamics of sounds as different as solo instruments (piano, sax, cello…), a chamber orchestra and a powerful wind orchestra.

No distorsion at all, no hiss, and a perfect handling of dynamics. And the resulting sound was also warm and “very musical”.

Paolo

]]> By: Anonymous https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-808 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:17:40 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-808 I’ve owned this recorder for almost a year now. Totally impressed with its warm sound and loss hiss. I record loud concerts and use the LINE-IN. The Pre/ADC is this puppy is top notch. I ditched the original Edirol R09 because I thought the DR-1 sounded much, much better. The biggest test was recording direct from a Soundboard and it handled it great! No crackling in the SBD recording at all.

Only con: Needs an auto increment recording feature for when a file hits 2GB limit.

]]> By: Anonymous https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-866 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:23:08 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-866 Hmm.. I know I’m late in this several-month-old chain, but I have to point out anyway that you have to have an impedence-matched xlr to 1/4 adapter, otherwise you lose out since you can’t just run an xlr signal into a 1/4 jack because of different impedences. The sales rep at some store told me that when I purchased it. It’s true. The adapters have a little transformer in them to drive the input impedence into the output.

]]> By: synthetic https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-912 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:34:30 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-912 There’s no power on the 1/4″ jack because it’s a stereo jack. If there was power it would have to be mono, right?

I haven’t had any problems with using internal or external mics on mine, I thin it sounds incredible. It does really well with loud sources like concerts, especially with the analog peak limiter turned on. I’ve used the Zoom but much prefer this recorder.

]]> By: peet sneekes https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-914 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:32:18 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-914 I know them both, but I jumped to conclusions because the 620 is more in the league of the DR-1 than the 660 (size and feature wise).
I do like the XLR’s on the 660 though. I never got why they can’t fit a couple (or even one) XLR – TRS combo’s on the compact recorders. Yeah I know, space.

]]> By: Brad Linder https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-921 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:58:27 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-921 Nope. The Marantz PMD620 is a handheld recorder with 1/8th inch inputs. the PMD660 is a more expensive unit with 2 XLR inputs.

]]> By: Peet Sneekes https://bradlinder.net/2008/06/a-short-review-of-the-tascam-dr-1.html#comment-922 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:56:33 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=124#comment-922 I’m not sure here, but are you referring to the Marantz PMD 620 when you mention the PMD 660?

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