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  TASCAM DP-008 for Field Recording?

  Posted by George Cahill iii on October 21, 2010 at 7:08 pm

  Just curious if anyone has used, or heard of someone using, the TASCAM DP-008 for field recording…it’s battery operated and just from the specs it seems to be a low-cost viable alternative for primary video sound recording.
  Any thoughts or experiences out there?
  Thanks.

  George Cahill
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  October 25, 2010 at 1:04 am

  The main impediment to using this, or other “portastudio”-type recorders is that their highest recording resolution is set for music or CD reproduction: 16-bit/44.1kHz… You’re going to want a minimum of 16-bit/48kHz for video sound recording.

  You can use this & then up-sample to 48kHz, but it’s not recommended. You’d be better served looking at something like the Fostex FR-2LE, Marantz PMD661, Tascam HDP2, or Zoom H4N.

  John Moore

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