For our church we are looking for mains-powered (no batteries) MP3 recorders that can record up to 1.5hrs, preferably onto a USB stick. As simple as possible, like on/off, record, stop.I have looked around the web and only found gear from Roland which had mixing functions and stuff that makes it too complicated, or Intempo which is more geared towards recording from radio channels and would probably need some hack to connect to our mixer. If this costs a few hundred Dollars that's ok but it cannot be complicated with teeny LCD screens and menus. In essence I'd have to be able to call someone and say "Turns this dark gray gizmo in the left corner on and hit the red record button", not explain a lengthy menu tree where they need a magnifier just to see it.IOW what we need is a cassette recorder sans cassettes, that records onto USB. Any ideas?-- Regards, Joerg"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.Use another domain or send PM.

maybe something like this browse through the bhphoto site for the better ideasmartin

Are there simple line-powered MP3 recorders?

Oct 26, 2008 146 Replies

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Charlie E. 17 years ago

Hi Jeorge, And this doesn't just apply to open source! If you are a dedicated user of Cadence ConceptHDL, then you learn pretty quickly to have perl and other scripts where you exit the software, delete all the *.b and

*.c files, automatically do edits on the .a files, and then reopen the software and do a hard save of the project. (You have to delete the .b binary files, and .c files because these are compiled from the .a, but have precedence over the .a (ascii) files.)

And users spend mucho bucks for this type of thing!

Charlie

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Joerg 17 years ago

Maybe. However, neither with OrCad nor Eagle nor any other CAD system did I have to do that. Meaning it is possible to design it right. So far it looks like Jean-Pierre Charras and his KiCad design group has managed to also do that.

Not this here user ;-)

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JosephKK 17 years ago

I am a Linux guy for my personal stuff. If KiCad runs in wine i will try it. Just checked, there are Linux versions, must try it.

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Joerg 17 years ago

A few drawings in the docs are in French, so some basic skills there can't hurt. Every time I see that I crave red wine and Camembert. Dang, why do we still have this pasteurization law and can't get good Camembert?

But don't worry, the GUI is all English and can be switched to a gazillion other languages.

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Rich Grise 17 years ago

Nanny State.

Is it too hard to make your own at home?

Cheers! Rich

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Joerg 17 years ago

Most definitely. A French guy once told me you "only" need about 2-3 generations of experience and then you'll get the hang of it.

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JosephKK 17 years ago

Not quite as difficult as Roquefort. That requires a parcel of the "magic" real estate, all of it already owned.

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