Recording King Harmonella, Neat Idea but...No follow through
588379
First was an OOO size from MF. Top was concaved by bridge down pressure. Sent it back. 2nd was an RPH-07 parlor. Thought shorter span on top bracing would hold up. Wrong!! Within 3 days bridge down pressure caused top to go concave and the strings to buzz. Presently trying to VERY slightly beef up bracing under where bridge sits because I really like the sound of this guitar. Talked to RK about the obvious design flaw in the top bracing and their customer service is worthless. They wouldn't even acknowledge they had a problem, even though you can see a million of these guitars on ebay at any given time with "belly bulge," "lifting bridge," "top crack," etc...The fixed bridge models seem to have the "belly bulge" "lifting bridge" problems and the floating bridge either have, or will shortly have, the problem I've had with my two. Step Up Recording King, admit you have a problem and fix it. The potential of these guitars is worth it.
3160702
This recording sounds flat and monotone. I will look further for a better quality recording. Maybe I need a re-mastered copy?
UPDATE: Someone was nice and replied to this post of mine. I forgot that most of these songs were recorded in monotone back then so shouldn't have expected stereo quality. I will be searching now for stereo option as I consider this one of my favorite collection of songs!
4741465
Makes a nice converter but the recording is totally undependable.
290969
Why does it even exist?!!In an age where so much data has to be recorded,transferred and kept safe, this one does not have the option of transferring the audio files to a computer?Ridiculous..I would never BUY this..was given this but absolutely no use for me as I need to save all the audio files until required.
1957775
I am going to have to rate this product very low because the first three impressions I had before returning it were negatives. I didn't get to recording at all because it simply did not work with the app I bought it to use with.  I like to sing karaoke in Smule's Sing! app.  I don't know whether it's a fault of the app or the MIC, but the app could not see that I had earphones plugged into the earphone jack, and therefore played everything out of the speaker... not good for recording.  I spent about an hour reading up on it and trying to find a work around before giving up.  I do know that my iRig external MIC worked just fine in this regard (to the app seeing the headphone).  My second issue was that you cannot leave your case on your phone while using the MIC.  Dangerous for those of us prone to drop our phones.  Third, the darned thing is all plastic. All of it.  Looked pretty fragile and a little cheesy.  So while it may record beautifully, I could not get beyond the first three "Do I want to keep it?" tests.  Back to the store it went.  Unusable for me.
4731862
You cannot, during recording, back up a little bit and make changes.  Is is very frustrating that all the product descriptions do not tell you that.  I had to send it back.
3656706
It does work as advertised, but you certainly CANNOT rely on the software they ship with it.  Better to download Audacity online instead.  It is a slow process, so you better have LOTS of patience.  Also, the software isn't exactly intuitive to use, however, I'm certainly an amateur.
85708
Choppy recording Ends of songs cut off Skipping The whole feeling/atmosphere of All of the music is ruined by flaws
3790683
I was very intrigued to find out that I could copy my old lps onto CD.  I have a ton of old albums that I just haven't been able to throw away.  I thought I would start with a low-price turntable and if the whole idea was a waste of time I wouldn't be out a lot of money.  I first hooked this turntable up to a laptop but since there wasn't a sound card I couldn't hear anything.  The albums recorded, but there was no sound coming through the speakers.  When I played the album back, it didn't sound good at all.  I then plugged the turntable into my desktop which has a "line in" jack and the sounds came through the speakers beautifully!!  (The cables are included, by the way.) I was very impressed with how well everything sounded.  Unfortunately, I'm very dissatisfied with the Pyro software.  I've worked as a computer programmer for over 20 years and I'm still trying to figure out how to do some things with this software.  It's extremely unintuitive.  Plus, when I applied the filter (which took over an hour to figure out) to remove the crackles and pops, it sounds like it's just lowering the volume.  Not what I expected.  My suggestion would be to buy the turntable, then shop for a better recording software package.
3708418
Surprise!  This card does not support "What You Hear", a vital feature if you want to record off your computer.  Piece of garbage.  Of course, I learned this after the fact, who would expect an Create SoundBlaster to specifically EXCLUDE this feature?
1475403
Purchased this product last month. If I record for an hour, I cant replay recording. It creates couple of files on SD card however only first file is in proper format, rest all file gives error while playing(looks like files created after first are getting corrupted.)

following is an error when I play with VLC-
No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Please see attachment.
3977518
I waited way too long before I ever played this for the first time. When I did finally watch it, the video was all messed up throughout pretty much the entire recording. There were only a few tracks that played correctly. But my own fault because I should have played it when I got it & checked it out. But I saved it for 3 months until my birthday to watch & by tht time I didn't feel it would be reasonable to ask for a return. But for the sake of keeping the community informed, the recording I was sent was a mostly unplayable bad recording.
4537887
I normally don't write reviews but here goes. This thing is just terrible in my experience and have had nothing but bad luck trying to get it to work. I've tested it in several different programs and did as the tips given by others say to try and not a dang thing works properly. I can record yes, however it has heavy feedback of hum, clicks and many other noises that I was unable to edit out of it after about two days of having it. I am sure glad I didn't pay full price and got this one on Cyber Monday. Complete rip-off, in my opinion.
3666170
I was very looking forward to this little guy to start recording stuff, but, wouldn't you know it...

First, the good. It looks great and sleek and the record button is a great idea. The thing is, the whole thing sucks from beginning to end.

At the very least, this is supposed to pass-through video. When there's no juice, there's no signal. Makes sense. But when there is power, there's still no signal and you get an epileptic trigger of LED blinking. And no pass-through. See, you have to connect it to a PC in order to have it do that. Which means, you MUST keep a computer connected to it if you're going to keep it hooked up to your tv setup. I don't know about you, but disconnecting HDMI cables and plugging them back and forth between this and my TV because I don't want to make my laptop a permanent fixture in my media center doesn't sound like a fun time.

Moving on, once you install the drivers, the pass-through works and the blinking stops. So far so good. I had it hooked up from an Xbox 360 and while I couldn't detect any lag at all, the box was very laggy detecting a signal. My TV detects that HDMI input as "alive" when the PVR2 is on and connected, so there are some signals going to the TV. But when I turn on my Xbox, I get to the tail end of the startup splash screen before it gets to the TV. I don't expect it to queue anything up, but I don't expect it to take 10x longer than my TV takes to acquire signal from a dead-off Xbox.

From there, it goes way worse way fast. The included software defaults to some edit mode, when it should obviously default to capture mode (why else would I want to use it?). I go to capture mode and the PVR2 turns into a light show again. Blue, cyan, solid green, yellow, it's own private little rave. After a 30 light show, I'm told the the device is busy and can't be captured. Oh. Makes no difference if I turn on the HDMI source first, or not, unplug it from power or unplug from USB to reset, nothing at all works. That cool button idea? Yeah, weak. It doesn't actually cause it to record, it's a hot button to start that dumb app, do the light rave, and put a error up on my computer's screen.

The out of the box drivers are no good, so I went to the website to download the newer ones. Same problem. I download beta drivers (and I never EVER get beta drivers) and now, ha ha, pass-through doesn't work AT ALL. No resets in the world can fix it. Thinking I've hosed it completely, I use System Restore to roll back my entire Windows installation to before I started fooling around with any of this and I was back to the start. I installed the most recent non-beta drivers and it's back to supporting pass through. Recording never worked though, and still doesn't.

Then I did what any reasonable person would, open a support ticket with Hauppauge. I didn't get an email confirmation or anything, just a confirmation number of the ticket, and a request to call their non-toll-free number. I left it all there, the laptop, the PVR2, my setup for a week waiting for their response (Fri -> Fri). And on Thursday, pass-through stopped working again while my laptop is still on and happily waiting for me to do something with it. After waiting a week and not getting a response, I've decided to turn in the towel. Phone support is only slightly better than banker's hours (9 to 6:30 Mon - Fri) but that covers my entire work day and commute, so that doesn't help me at all. If Hauppauge is fine shoving completely defective items into boxes and shipping them out, not sending email confirmations, releasing beta software that works worse than the completely broken original software, and inflexible support hours, I don't think my chances are very good anyway.

Thankfully, I bought this from Amazon, who will happily accept my return at no extra cost to me. The least I can do for them is voice my experience here and urge them to simply stop carrying this paperweight. Easy returns when I'm so thoroughly disheartened is part of why I shop here.
35954
No matter what I try, I can't get this to record onto a cd in my Windows Media Center. I've never had a problem with the many albums I've downloaded before from Amazon. It appears to be burning as it should but something in the format of this particular album is not playable on any cd player I own.  I'm baffled by this :(
4977557
I really dislike this recorder.  Yes, I know -- it said you could record from old records and cassettes to a CD.  You can do that, but not very easily  The instructions were very hard to understand, and when you finally get the hang of recording, you have to sit there and listen to the whole recording, and make sure you put manual breaks between each song, or you're going to have one long recording of songs with no breaks.  I don't know about you, but it's very hard for me to find the gap between recordings on vinyl and more often than not, I get scraps of different songs in the one I'm recording.  The only thing it's really good for is just playing records and cassettes.  And if you want to make a digital recording, you have to rip each song from the recorded CD, name it, and save it as an mp3 file.  This was a gift from my husband and unfortunately we waited past the 30 day return period or I would have definitely sent it back.  Oh, well ... I'm going to check out some computer software to see if it will do a better job.  I guess my husband is just out of the money on this thing.  Maybe we can find someone else who can make use of it.
3244301
Recording is not too good (lots of background noise) and the bass IMHO is annoying. The Dies Irae was nice and bombastic (which I wanted for this) but the bass and the recording noise ruined it for me. I'll be looking for another recording.