Portable Recording
There are several good methods for field recording. My two favorites are to fix up a netbook as a portable recording studio or to use a portable digital recorder. Netbooks are so cool; I’ve been wishing for netbooks ever since I discovered computers. Ordinary laptops work fine too, and you get more powerful CPUs. You have all the same options as you do with a desktop computer—your choice of preamps, mixers, and other audio interfaces, microphones, software—and you can do all of your editing on the spot and even burn CDs. You also have a nice screen and keyboard, instead of the tiny screens and buttons found on portable digital recorders.
Pocket digital recorders work wonderfully well and are fun. These range from tiny keychain ...
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