Comments on: Tascam DR07 and DR100 digital audio recorders on their way

By: Steve Struthers

Steve Struthers — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:37:21 +0000

I have a DR-07 and think it's a great recorder for the money. The built-in mics could be a little better, but for $150 or so for the DR-07, what more could you want? The preamp for external mics is surprisingly quiet for a recorder of its calibre.

The DR-07 is probably the best of the cheap digital audio recorders.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:18:16 +0000

Wow. Mine sounds excellent. The line and mic inputs are very clean. I wouldn't ever use the omni mics for music, the cardioid ones work fine on the unit. They are a tad bass light. A/D conversion is really excellent. Needs a stand, hand-held you get loads of noise.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:53:24 +0000

By: Agustín Novillo

Agustín Novillo — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:16:16 +0000

This kind of products doesn´t come to my country so i took the risk to buy it without make a few tests before buy it. It was a mistake, i have a Sony minidisc(mz-rh1), with Sony ecm-ms907 stereo condenser mic, and i made a comparation between products and the result was that minidisc is much better to get better sounds from live recordings, in every kind of stage or theatre. I made recordings in operas with minidisc and the voices sounds like the singers were singing by your side. The Tascm dr-100 take much more effort to get a strong mic or line input signal, so you need a louder signal to get a good recording, using all the parameters at the top, but if you use the mic imput volume at the top and the mic gain in high, you´ll get much more noice, and maybe a lot of peak if the signal is stronger than the tascam can get or stand, so you have to use the auto limiter and then the sound quality gets worse with this analog parameter. There is no difference between recordings mp3 320kb in 41khz, 48khz,etc. and wave 16bits, 24bits, in 41,48khz. all sound the same, the only difference is wave recordings get much more room in your sd card. The new tascam software to make recordings in 96khz is really bad, with the recordings apears a lot of noice and the sound quality is really poor, sounds better recording in mp3 than wave at 96khz. So if you want to get good sound from the live concerts, or any kind of live sound, tascam dr-100 is not a good option and is very expensive for the piece of plastic that it is.

By: alphabrain

alphabrain — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:27:59 +0000

DR-100 Firmware Update 1.1 available.

The German tascam-site (www.tascam.de) has now released the V 1.1 Update of the DR-100.
Beside the new 96kHz capability, there also is a small service-update that adresses some noise problems.

Download the Update here:
http://www.tascam.de/dl.php?id=165

By: ReporterAudio

ReporterAudio — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:31:01 +0000

Think the
Tascam DR-07 is all I'll ever need - and at the price difference, don't know if I'd ever go with the
Tascam DR-100. Is about time someone brought out a simple, plain, but high quality digi audio recorder with inbuilt mic's thats perfect for journalists!