... a microphone and tape cassette doesn't make you a good musician. Thin reedy voice and seemingly tone deaf ...
341481
Having a microphone and tape cassette doesn't make you a good musician. Thin reedy voice and seemingly tone deaf performances. You can't claim this is "indie" - that would imply this was music, you know, with a sense of rhythm and pitch.
479064
I see that a lot of people complained about the sound quality. Yes, it's true. You don't get the best sound, but what do you expect for $29.95. People kill me. If you want good sound quality, go out and spend hundreds of dollars on expensive sound equipment. If you're not that worried about the sound quality, then this will probably work for you. I've been recording 20 year-old cassettes that are starting to go bad. The sound quality isn't the best on some of my cassettes. People have to remember that they are transferring music from analog to digital. Of course, you're going to lose some sound. The quality has a lot to do with these old cassettes, not necessarily with the Digitone.
4201858
At first I liked this because of the sounds quality. If you are not use to having noise reduction headphones it takes some time getting use to. There is no real mic on this as it uses the computers mic. The sound is okay if you know now to adjust the mids and highs on your computer's audio. I think I would buy a headset that has a mic instead for doing recordings. But, for listening to music on my computer and to block out the surrounding noise it works good.
2230126
It's OK, but if you are a singer-songwriter just recording your voice and guitar, you won't have any need for this. It's not great on either voice or guitar, and you have much better options. Don't get a 57 just b/c everybody says its a mic you need to have. You don't need it, really.

- Tatyaya
2863423
The content here is probably pretty good.  I am not a Powell afficionado and left the picking and choosing to Verve.  Verve should have left the sound to somebody else.  The sound quality is just awful.  The pitch is wrong most of the time which is probably due to tape stretch and speed problems.  I guess it is a stretch to think that any recording before about 57 or 58 would sound worth a damn.  Sorry Bud.  You were born too soon and I guess died too young.  Check out the Blue Note RVG's instead.  Leave this one in the bargain bin.
334396
singing and music are way off,  not a good sound, singing goes high and then low like the music, try to blend them together, not by them selfs
30542
It sounds just like a cellphone mic!
For it's price, people will say that it's worth the cost. But think about it. Another 25-30 dollars and you can get a whole lost better audio quality than this. Don't make the mistake of buying this for it's portability.
I barely used it since I got it. It's just not a good speaker.
417045
Poor recording quality. This looks like a pro mic, but it's not. I guess the price should have given me a clue, huh?
268934
The volume has to be turned all the way up in order to hear your music at a decent level.  Also, the microphone doesn't work well since you have to end up screaming in order for the other person to hear you.
588204
This recording was recorded when there were not voice enhancements to make you sound good or better.  Just plain old fashion vocalizing.
2061805
Radio has nice features but the audio quality is trash. This radio is good for people who don't care how the music sounds
902713
I though this stunk, because of the poor quality of the recording.  First I had to turn up the volume to max just to hear the music; second the music and her voice where not in harmony; and finally it sounded like it was recorded in a high school recording studio. Her voice was ok, but this was not like listening to Sarah Brightman.
3805773
This player is not a professional-grade device. It has a plastic turntable and a rather flimsy tonearm. This is typical of "nostalgia" electronics coming from China.

If you've got a few old albums or 45's from your youth, this will play them, and they will probably sound about as good as they did on your portable record player back in the 60's. This player does not sound as good as your parents' mahogany hi-fi system that sat in the living room.

Are you attempting to archive vinyl recordings to digital? This is not the right device. Further, the lack of balancing and overall instability of the tonearm could do damage to fragile records.
4531476
It is a pretty good fit for the purpose: it gets carried in a small briefcase with a Tascam DR-680 and 4 mics and 4 color coded 10' mic cables. It feels pretty good, lies down flat w/o kinks and the connectors feel pretty durable. I won't really know how well they were made 'til I take them apart.
To have gotten 5 stars it would have to have been a different product entirely, made for this purpose, skinny and supple and manufactured with long tails on one end for the mics and very short tails on the other for the recorder.
1848596
I have not fully explored what is possible with this item, and I admit that. However, once I had installed the drivers, they interfered with my recording with the Audacity program I usually use. The sound was very thin and every syllable was truncated. When I uninstalled the drivers, my Audacity operation was restored to its ability to accurately record sounds.
4672420
These don't have an internal impedance matching transformer.  They sound thin and bright, have a lot of handling noise if used handheld, and being high Z they probably won't drive a very long mic cable, much less a PA snake, before they lose a lot of highs and signal amplitude.  Pyle products are very inexpensive and usually offer good value for the money, but this one missed the boat.
4232404
I liked the quality this mic recorded at, but the volume was so low even right against the edge of the desk that I had to replace this with a clip-on. Later replaced that with the stationary mic on the Lifecam Studio for convenience, but did not enjoy this mic. Heard something about a defective batch but did not try soldering this mic.