Sound Fidelity Is this recorder (Sony ICDSX46) good to record the lectures in the class. I am a student and am highly interested in this recorder. Willing to pay the price but need to confirm if it can record voice which is about 12-15 feet away. Sound Fidelity Is this recorder (Sony ICDSX46) good to record the lectures in the class. I am a student and am highly interested in this recorder. Willing to pay the price but need to confirm if it... » Read More Sound Fidelity Is this recorder (Sony ICDSX46) good to record the lectures in the class. I am a student and am highly interested in this recorder. Willing to pay the price but need to confirm if it can record voice which is about 12-15 feet away. « Show Less
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I use the ICD-SX25 in medium size conference rooms flat on the table and the results are unbelievably good.
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I am a student as well and used the recorder for class. .. You may want to sit as close as you are comfortable to make sure that you get a good sound quality. for all the classes that I used it for i sat on the second row..
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Why are you recording a recording? Usually when you record a class you just play back the tapes without re recording the whole lecture. Normally when I record a class I use my Sony tape recorder, not digital, and I label all the tapes I record. In this way I can select which lectures I want to listen to again. It seems you are doing double work.
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Yes but care must be taken not to place on hard surface where everytime your neighbor drops a pencil it's like the fall of a giant redwood-- positioning and aiming the mics will be important. If you are too far from the lecturer to get his / her voice loud and clear, pick an unobtrusive place within a few feet of the lectern... no reason you can't give your recorder a better seat than you. Of course you may have to get creative if you don't want the recorder to be seen. Tape your lecturer at slow speed and play it back fast and you'll finish listening in half the time the recording took. (For conference taping when you and others sit with speaker around a big table, there is a special kind of mic you buy). But for a typical college lecture in a large lecture hall just get the recorder close enough, suitably camouflaged as needed. You need to be a bit of a techie to understand all the features, but you won't need all the features. Good luck!
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From my experience with any kind of Mic, trying to record clear sound at a concert is damn near impossible. I've occasionally used the Mic to record movies played in class that were louder than the lecture overall and it still came out Crystal clear. I'm not sure of the quality with concert music though. Definitely use that black puffy protector that the product comes in. It'll filter out some of the noise. Sorry that I'm not much help.
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the Q4, so far for me, has recorded various types of music nicely. i've not had the opportunity to record anything "classical/symphonic" yet. the key to getting a good recording with the Q4 is picking the appropriate setting on the Three-position MIC GAIN switch...either AUTO or manual, H - High sensitivity (for &#64257;eld recording), M - Medium sensitivity (for solo and chamber music performances) or L - Low sensitivity (for band performances and concerts).
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Yes. I just bought it for exactly that purpose because Nuance's website has this rated as one of their best performing digital recorders with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Google "Nuance hardware compatibility list" and you can read their recommendations. I tested the DVT1000 last night with Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 12 (Academic Version) and after doing the required setup, I was amazed at how well it performed. Super accurate. I recommend it.
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Yes, I used it to get closer to who was speaking. I filmed a class and took the audio from the professor. It worked very well. The sound is great. Without loss of quality.
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I have found that the 3D headphones (from Livescribe) does a great job in cutting ambient noise when recording in a conference setting (or in your case, classroom setting). Also, you can try setting the "Audio Quality" to High - the obvious downside is that your number of recorded hours goes down, but this has never been a problem for me as I sync my pen with Evernote almost daily.
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Very good question, Laurie. What I do, is read the reviews on amazon. People will usually have widely differing answers. If there are a LOT of negatives, I run for the hills and do not buy. If there are a LOT of very well written positives, I pay attention to each point by point comment to judge if I would be o.k., or not, with using that product. On this Sony, I can make it work. But the manual is horribly written, and at times, confusing. I tend to like this machine, but if I was to buy anopther like it, I think I might opt for a different well known brand, such as teac/tascam. Perhaps the best thing you could do, is ask your friends or neighbors what kind of CD recorder they use, and ask them "How easy is this to use, and does it give high quality recordings?" Then, they can actually show you how it works, and be there for you, if you buiy one, but have a problem. Best wishes!
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Where does your audio come from? You can put it near a speaker to record that. When I want to record something on speakerphone, I take it out of my ear and lay it on the telephone speaker. It records that well and also records my voice if I speak out loud into the speakerphone. If the online training is on your PC, couldn't you record the audio directly?
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Depends upon the speaker. I used this for two interviews. The first was in a room with the recorder on a nearby table. The second was a phone interview with the phone set to speakerphone. In both cases the pickup was better than expected and it seemed to hear as well as I could. If you can hear the lecture well enough, I suspect it will do fine.
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I am sorry, I can't answer this question. I am no longer using a tape recorder I have gone digital. It was too hard to find good tapes that didn't drag and distort the vocal sound. There was an output to ear phones, but that is all I remember. Sorry, Becky
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Yes, the speaker is actually pretty good if you use it in a car or at your desk. I'm moving next week, and I'm not going to mess with getting a radio transciever, so I'm just going to use it's speaker. Also the recording microphone is great for classes.
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I think it's great for recording a lecture, It's a voice recorder after all. I mostly use it for music/voice solo recordings and short story recordings, and it works well.
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I have found it excellent in recording oral histories. I place it about 2 feet from the person being interviewed and have had wonderful results. The conversation is easily heard. I suspect the same will be for 3 feet distance. What I would suggest is trying it on yourself at that distance and speaking softly. That should tell you how it will do for the person you hope to interview. Sometimes people are worried and sensitive about such interviews, but if you start out with easy questions and keep it relaxed, they will slowly relax as well and forget all about the recorder. I wish you luck with the interview. I have found it excellent in recording oral histories. I place it about 2 feet from the person being interviewed and have had wonderful results. The conversation is easily heard. I suspect the same will be for 3 feet distance. What I would suggest is trying it on yourself at that distance and speaking softly. That should tell you how it will do for the person you hope to interview. Sometimes people are worried and sensitive about such interviews, but if you start out with easy questions and keep it relaxed, they will slowly relax as well and forget all about the recorder. I wish you luck... » Read More I have found it excellent in recording oral histories. I place it about 2 feet from the person being interviewed and have had wonderful results. The conversation is easily heard. I suspect the same will be for 3 feet distance. What I would suggest is trying it on yourself at that distance and speaking softly. That should tell you how it will do for the person you hope to interview. Sometimes people are worried and sensitive about such interviews, but if you start out with easy questions and keep it relaxed, they will slowly relax as well and forget all about the recorder. I wish you luck with the interview. « Show Less
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Dear Stephen, I gave your question serious thought. I even searched the web for a proper answer. Its best to contact Sony's technical dept. They will ask you for the type of recorder, model, speed etc. Regards, George Ejdaharian
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yes you could record that long because I have mine setup for security purposes and it works fine. and I have co-workers that record long class seminars and I haven't heard any complaints from them