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Guitarfxr, what serial number was your first unit? Did the Tascam rep tell you which serial numbers were affected? Mine starts with 002, so should I upgrade to firmware 1.10?

Anyone know the difference between a full format versus a quick format of the SD card in the DR-1?

hewhorocks, Thanks for posting up the recording. Great performance by the band. I also received a reply from a Canadian rep. for Tascam in regards to the availability of the Lithium battery for the DR-1. It's CAD$27+ for a replacement battery, but currently they don't have any in stock and don't have a dateline on when it'll be available. Hopefully Tascam will release a better firmware upgrade to the version 1.10 soon.

I received the DR-1 yesterday, and have been playing around with it. It has firmware 1.02 already installed on it, and since it's the only recorder I've owned in the past 8 years I have nothing else to compare it to. I owned a Sony Minidisc recorder, but I never really used it as a field recorder. I did play around with a demo unit of Edirol's R-09 at a Roland booth during a music conference, and the Tascam is definitely built much better than the Edirol. Would have liked it more if it is built out of aluminum instead of plastic. The unit's built slightly bigger than I imagined, and it would've been great if Tascam managed to shave 1/2 inch from each side of the unit. I immediately switched out the 1gb SD card and replaced it with a 2gb card I owned, and it gave me slightly over 90 minutes of recording time with a 128mb file limit in 192kbs mp3 format (which is plenty!). I find the internal mics sensitive enough to pick up sounds from across a 20 feet room at mid gain. I also ordered a Sony ECM-DS70P microphone with a 1.5m long cable to use with the unit. The main purpose of the unit is for recording interviews, speeches and collecting sound-bytes for multimedia projects. So far I'm very happy with it.

Anyone knows how much are additional batteries for the DR-1? And where can I download the firmware update? Is there a way I can get only the 1.02 firmware without going to the 1.10?

I just ordered the DR-1 online, and hopefully will receive the unit in a week or two. Is there anything else besides the Sony Furby for field recording?

Can I transfer recordings from MD directly to PC/Mac using USB?

Hello, I'm a new user on this forum and I'm very new to collecting sounds/music on digital recorders. I'm looking at the Tascam DR-1, Olympus LS-10 and Edirol R-09 for journalism use (short interviews, getting sound-bytes (music, ambiance/street sounds, etc.) for slideshows, etc.). I was going to go with the Edirol until I read about the flimsy built and strong hissing sound. Is the DR-1 a good unit for journalism work? I'll be using the unit mainly while on the road, so it has to be durable enough. Thanks.