JVC Japan announced [JP] the RD-R2 today, a portable audio recorder designed for “street dancers” and musicians. The device lets you store music on microSD/SDHC cards (4GB to 32GB), records music ...

The Zoom H1 XLR portable recorder is definitely excellent for film and video production, but it’s also quite ideal for live events such as filming a play, sports, etc. It’s also going to be great for ...

Module Records cobbled together a short but useful roundup of MP3 recording devices. Most digital audio players record in huge .wav files that take forever to convert into MP3. Although these devices ...

The Zoom H2 is great, inexpensive portable audio recorder. The downside is that its input options are rather limited. If you're willing to take the device apart, however, you can change that. YouTuber ...

Field recorders, or backpackable audio recorders with a few XLR jacks and an SD card slot, are a niche device, and no matter what commercial field recorder you choose you’ll always compromise on what ...

Since Sony introduced DAT (digital-audio tape) in 1987, it has been the preferred format option of many journalists, musicians, and live-concert and lecture-audience members, who want to capture a ...

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 ...

Digital voice recorders are typically used in business to record meetings, seminars and lectures, or notes concerning them, as well as to capture project-related ideas and for dictating correspondence ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...