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[IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question

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OK, Thanks Bill.  Yes, the Laptop has Windows 7.  I will look for the Tascam DR07.  Does the Turtle Beach sound card work as an "outboard" device or does it need to be installed internally?


Marc DeLorenzo 
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
 http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
 



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From: 'Bill Nollman' billct97@xxxxxxxxxxx [CapeDX] <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 4:11 pm
Subject: RE: [CapeDX] Mobile DX Recording Question



  
    
                  

Mark, audio recording with a laptop or digital device. One of my favorite topics.
 
Option #1 - Iâll assume the laptop is Windows 7 or lower â in which case I have a Turtle Beach USB sound card (looks like a small pager, no drivers for Win8 or 10) that Iâve been debating putting on eBay. Audio input is excellent and has a built in microphone and switch on the device if you want to add comments as you record.
 
Option #2 â digital recorder. Tons of options really expensive right down to cheap. I prefer somewhere in the middle. My favorite digital recorder is the Tascam DR07 (the older DR07 not the DR07 mkII). Recording quality is amazing and with a 2GB card you can record for hours at 256kbps MP3. With a 16GB card you probably canât fill it up ever. Quality is excellent, controls are excellent. The built in mic is good as well although a bit trickier to switch over to than the USB âcardâ.
 
Option #3 â you can probably find dirt cheap mp3 recorders from Hong Kong for under $10. IMHO you get what you pay for in this category. But for some peoples ears itâs more than perfect.
 
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT.
 

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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 3:34 PM
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Subject: [CapeDX] Mobile DX Recording Question

 
  


Mark Connelly has built for me an amplified whip antenna with magnetic base that I can mount on the roof of my car for oceanfront DXpeditions.  We tested it in an RFI quiet zone - the local cemetery! - and it works fine with my JRC NRD-525 receiver.

 

The problem is recording  DX using Total Recorder on my laptop.  The laptop does not have an audio "line in" jack so I have been trying to use the microphone jack.  It records but the audio playback is quite distorted.  On the laptop I get the following message from Total Recorder:

 

"The level of the source signal is too high.  Possibly the characteristics of the sound source do not match those of the soundboard input (e.g. instead of soundboard's line-in connector, the microphone-in connector is used.)   Recording is possible, but the quality of the recorded sound may be low."

 

Right.  I noticed that.    The question is what is the solution to the problem.  20 years ago I had an "attenuating cable" from Radio Shack that might solve the problem.  But, like a dummy, I through it away thinking that, "I'll never have any use for that."  I doubt that RS still carries this product.

 

So, is there a Total Recorder setting that might work?  Or, should I scrap Total Recorder and buy a portable digital recorder?  If so, which one?  A digital recorder (with a line-in jack of course) would be better in that it is smaller and would take up less space in the car.

 

Any help appreciated.

 


Marc DeLorenzo

South Dennis, MA

 






    
             
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