Since digital portable recorders have been introduced, there’s been an explosion in the number of product offerings. The most basic devices offer multiple file formats and quality settings. The most ...

Samson Technologies is about to release its smallest portable recorder to date. The Zoom H1 Handy Recorder is capable of recording up to 24-bit/96kHz WAV or 320Kbps MP3 using its built-in or external ...

Some audiophiles will tell you that the only way to enjoy music listening with master tape audio quality is to do so using a reel-to-reel tape machine. Audio engineer Kostas Metaxas agrees and has ...

Most portable recorders come with an array of physical buttons, switches and toggles. It's part of what makes them practical and charming to use. But with its new Portacapture X8, Tascam wants to make ...

Mark Foster has spent countless hours working on music in the studio, but lately, the Foster the People frontman says he’s been trying to take his songwriting to go. “The past couple of years, it’s ...

Looking for a portable recorder for taking voice notes. All the ones I've tried from Amazon (like 7 different models) take 4-7 seconds to actually start recording anything once you hit the red button ...

Zoom is known for its high-performance, yet highly affordable audio recorders, and the new H6 is the best Zoom yet. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio ...

Connect a microphone to your computer; type "Sound Recorder" in your Start menu, you're ready to record using your Windows Sound recorder. Computer-based recorders are useful, but they have ...

WHEN Alan Lomax and his father, John, began making their famous field recordings of Southern folk singers in the 1930's, they had to build their 350-pound recording machine into the back of their Ford ...

Sound is an easy thing to take for granted, especially when you’re surrounded by it. Capturing that it, too, is an easy thing to take for granted – despite the fact that recording out in the field has ...

It is about this time every year in Tackle Box when I receive a portable recording device that sets out to perform perfect field recordings that can easily be transferred to any computer-and instantly ...

Podcasting is great. More and more people have discovered Audacity to record their podcasts, and in many ways it's ideal. It's like a toe in the shallow end of the recording and producing pool. With a ...