Edirol R-09

[King_Nothing]

Hello everyone, I really would like to get a good quality audio recording device for concerts, and I have been suggested a Edirol R-09.
I do not know much about these devices yet, and just have a few questions:
1) Does the auction below sound reasonable?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Edirol-R-09-Compact ... dZViewItem

2)How good are the basic mics that come with it? And if I should get a different set, what would be recommenced?

Any other tips/pointers would be great, I would love to start getting proper bootleg recordings of concerts to share!
Thanks everyone!

[metmum]

The stuff I've heard by them sounds good and heard good thins about them. I think the only thing is one of the input jacks is loose and can break. If you do a search on google you might be able to find something on it, or you could try tapersection.com they have a lot of people who know what they are on about.

[Duane]

I have a Tragically Hip recording with a R-09 and the internal mics if you need a sample. I believe there are some issues with it occasionally, like Metmum said tapersection is the place to go. I believe there are a lot of discussions about them on TTD forums, especially since they have outlawed md recordings. There is a lot of talk about these.


http://www.samsontech.com/products/prod ... rodID=1901

I think the Edirol (maybe older ones) have a limit to the size of SD card you can put in there..maybe I'm wrong?

[MasterSandman II]

There's a new update on the Edirol R-09 that will allow you to put up to an 8 GB SD Card in it.

I'm looking into buying one of these as well.

[King_Nothing]

Has anyone heard much about those Zoom H4's? They seem to be just as good, if not better than the Edirol.

[MasterSandman II]

Has anyone heard much about those Zoom H4's? They seem to be just as good, if not better than the Edirol.

I took a look at it on E-Bay and this guy in my radio class has one of those and it works awesome...for voice recording anyway. The free shipping is intriguing, haha.

[metmum]

Has anyone heard much about those Zoom H4's? They seem to be just as good, if not better than the Edirol.

I think over at tapersection most tapers have said avoid them, there are a couple of machines which seem to be favored among the tapers but they are really expensive, I think out of the cheaper ones your best bet are either the eidirol or the microtrack. Both have had plenty of field tests and do alright. It just the problem I mentioned earlier with the edirol but that was when when they fist came out. They may have sorted this out because from what I read about it, its just a matter of a bit of extra soldering (is that how you spell it??).

[BMR]

So if I were to buy something like this for example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Edirol-R-09-24-Bit- ... hotohsting

Would I need anything else to go with it? Is it as simple as hitting record and letting it go?? Just wanna be sure if im spending $450 llol. Any help would rule!

It has internal mics and you can go alone with it, but to get a lot better results, consider about getting a proper external mic set too.

[Duane]

What did you decide to buy?

[King_Nothing]

Haven't made a decision yet lol. Just going to wait until I do my taxes and see what kind of return ill get