Seeking tips for economy recording rig

Mark
I'm very sorry to hear that. Is there a chance to correct things somehow? Let us know how your coming along.

I just picked up a cool item from iriver. It's the T30 1gb flash MP3 player/recorder and it rocks. It's got USB 2.0, headphones and [u]line in for recording from any source, no PC needed[/u]. If using a microphone, evidently you need one that is self powered or something that brings the signal up to line level. However it also records surprisingly well with the internal mic.

I saw this item online for ~$130, so I'll be seeing Best Buy for a price match or else a return, mine was $169.99. It is so small it's nuts. I'm recording a CD to it right now through the line in jack. Works great!

I wish it showed you what settings are which sampling rates, instead they just say, hi, med, low for the recording quality. But, when you play them back, and you go to adjust the volume, the LED display shows that it's an MP3 320k 44khz! Not sure what those numbers exactly mean.

MINI PREAMP
I've seen small mini mic stereo preamps w/two mini mics go for like $69-99 on ebay. That's 2-mics and one 9volt preamp that outputs to line level, w/two different boost levels. Still checking out options.

Mark
I'm very sorry to hear that. Is there a chance to correct things somehow? Let us know how your coming along.

Please let us know how things are coming along, and thanks again for doing so much to try to help.

I'm somewhat less impressed with the T30, seems more like a decent mini voice recorder, I don't like the awkwardness and feel of the control buttons.

erm fixed my ipod took a week of being very pissed off and cos it broke once while trying to do it iv not ried since because i get better recordings on my pc and it was too much messing about using my ipod soz m8 i might try agen when a newer version of the linux softwar is released

Wow, I hear you, and thanks for the update. Good to hear that things improved! I too am going to record on PC and go from there. It's interesting stuff, but cracks are not always the safest route I suppose. Sorry about the hassle for our sake! If we didn't talk about it, I've heard that the newer generation iPods may not work right with the Linux boot as they may have done more crippling, I think it works best on 1st-3rd generation iPods (maybe 4th gen?), if I recall correctly it was excluding the latest generation, which I think is 5th generation (not sure which is the latest mass produced generation). Even then, it might work, but the testers hadn't tried that generation out yet...

Best wishes, and happy holidays!!!

no prob m8 will keep you informed f i try anything new, iv read about the new gen ipods not working on linux yet im sure it will be sorted out tho lol think its 5th the video one!!
merry xmas !!

Forget about ipods and all that bollox, just get a small digital recorder like one of these http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/options.php?id=67951 or one of these http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/options.php?id=8935

You can always put the stuff on PC with USB and then mix from there.

Cheers

Dick