Edirol R-1 - useful as a solid state MD recorder replacement - currently available for about US$400, it has plug-in power mic input socket, but not phantom power pro inputs…
…if you want those you need to go more upmarket
- like the Marantz PMD660 available down to US$499…
- or go all the way to the Nagra range - some of which are even becoming quite affordable! - such as the Ares M or Ares PII+.
M-Audio Microtrack is US$499 rrp
web surfing notes on field recording
In a Proaudio Asia article, Greg Simmons says:
‘I’ve always admired field-recording pioneers like David Lewiston and Alan Lomax,’ says Simmons.
April 2005 Nagra News has articles by:
Frank Schreiner - tv/film recording engineer
Chris Watson - documentary film recordist - records army ants and bees, etc, using interesting ultrasensitive transducers
Gérard Beuchat -recorded treks in Kilimanjaro
Chris Watson is an interesting character, a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, also worked with Hafler Trio, KK.Null, Z’EV, and others, has done an invisible jukebox in the wire, also an eminent field recordist who worked for David Attenborough.
There is also the radio show fieldwork on 2ser in sydney, which has a website with lots of info about field recordings.
via r-echos, some links down the track, we find a company called Feonic who produce products to produce audio from a piece of glass (feonicglass) or other objects (soundbug)
lots of possibilities here… !
(via makezine blog)
The KHRONOS PROJECTOR
[a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen]
by Alvaro Cassinelli,
with the support of Takahito Ito, Monica Bressaglia & Masatoshi Ishikawa.
- nicely interactive, blobby rather than linear, version of Daniel Crooks‘ timeslice technique (which itself is a visual analog of single stream granular synthesis)
very nice!
LCS Matrix 3
- Last I looked at this, it had some form of 2D panning to the surface of arbitrary 3D speaker arrays - depth was not simulated, nor was acoustics.
Lake Huron Digital Audio Convolution Workstation
- I think it’s still available, but there seems to be no web presence for it anymore.
update: there’s a webpage here, though it doesn’t seem to be linked to from anywhere.
This hardware is rather old now though, so while it can still do the longest convolutions with the lowest latency in a turnkey hardware product, it is weak in general purpose spatialization even compared to open source software solutions.