Digital recorder for class

[jjessico]

My roomate is looking for a digital recorder for his classes. Should he get a specialized voice recorder or are there mp3 players with a line-in that he could hook a small mic up to and record on that?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Jason

 

[Modeps]

I have no idea what's good, but back in college I got a minicassette recorder for that exact purpose. I used it once to record classes, I used it a second time to record a conversation with some piece of crap food employee... then I never used it again.

 

[Injury]

a tape style recorder will work better for recording an hour or two of classes at a time.

 

[Heisenberg]

My Creative Muvo has a built-in mic and a line-in for an external mic. I think there are several others out there that are that way too.

 

[jjessico]

Any idea how that mic in the MuVo works?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

for recording and dictation, the sony recorders are great!

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: jjessico
Any idea how that mic in the MuVo works?

I dunno...I've never tried to record a lecture with it. I would guess that an external directional mic would work better than a standard built-in condensor mic regardless of the particular player.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: jjessico
Any idea how that mic in the MuVo works?

They are ok. A dedicated one is much better though.

 

[funkymatt]

minidiscs are cheap. i used one for class, and i still use it in the car sometimes. they can hold like 5 hours on one disc, and you can make a mic REAL cheap from parts from radioshack.