geestring Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 just a quick question. Are the mp3 players that offer "voice recording" such as ipods and creatives as good or better in sound quality than minidisc players? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Generally, no. Voice recording is easy: narrow frequency range, narrow dynamic range, mono. Most voice recorders (and that would also include little digital recorders) record compressed sound, sometimes ridiculously compressed, because they're not going after high fidelity. You don't need it to understand dictation.Minidisc records in PCM, which is CD-quality sound, and in stereo. Things that call themselves "voice recorders" probably don't. Check the specs. The Creative Nomad Jukebox 3, now discontinued, did offer high-quality recording and 20 GB of storage. A lot of concert tapers used it. But it had Line-in rather than a mic. And it's the size of a CD player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geestring Posted June 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 im just worried about getting caugtht when they search me... with a md player.im going toa festival type show so i dont know how tight it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m15a Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 im just worried about getting caugtht when they search me... with a md player.im going toa festival type show so i dont know how tight it is.i don't think there's anything safer overall (getting through the security and recording without getting caught). voice recorders won't be worth it. and i think the smaller flash recorders are fairly recognizable, too. (maybe not as much as a minidisc recorder, but you can't pretend you use it just for listening.)make sure you hide all your recording stuff seperate from your md. (and hide it well.) maybe even on a different person. and then pretend. if they're suspicious, don't act confrontational. act dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 (edited) A microphone is going to be the giveaway for recording, which is another reason I like little ones like the SoundPro BMC-2. Wear a shirt with buttons (not a T-shirt) and go to the concert with the mic wire hidden behind the buttons and the mics folded over the top buttons and also hidden. A pat-down search usually goes for your sides, not your front. Most security guards are there to search bags and backpacks, so wear baggy pants and keep the MD in a pocket. Plug in the headphones if they're earbuds, put them around your neck if they're headband headphones--see, you're really just listening to music. Put labels on blanks you're carrying as if they already have music on them. If for some reason the guards do search your pockets or use metal detectors, tell them the MD is your mp3 player. Everybody takes cell phones, cameras, etc. into concerts--it's just one more little gadget. Really, most security guards are not experts at this stuff. They're looking for weapons and intoxicants. Festivals have to get thousands of people through the gates, and they're not going to want delays to build up while they do extensive searches. The odds are in your favor. And if you do get caught, just take the MD back to your car and enjoy the festival. It's all a game anyway. Edited June 21, 2006 by A440 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubilly Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 yeah the md player shouldn't be hard to pass off as just your mp3 player.if you think they'll search you, you should crotch the mic to be sure you won't get caught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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