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07 Feb, 2017
Excellent audio worth price alone
2 of 3 found this helpful It is like a free camera with a powerful 4 track audio recorder, and for the built in mics options keep getting better, including a 2 additional XLR adapter and a shotgun mic...zoomed in all the way there is no wide angle effects and zoomed out all the way I could capture the whole band from behind the drums...incredible bass response, worked with a 128gb chip too...
02 Mar, 2017
DR-701 is solid and high quality -
That being said, pulling hot AA batteries out after just 50 minutes of operation is a sad engineering oversight - the external power supply using a typical flimsy wall wart and Chinese cheap as can get wire makes one wish for a solid power supply inside the tiny unit with a sturdy standard ac jumper cord to power up.
The menu fails to make the simple 4 track recording option clear - must select "mono" and look at a 1-2 left right 3-4 left right screen as good news - and the mystery 5-6 internal stereo mx down recording intertannl is not clarified if it will accept an external 5-6 from say the PA board. Manual as usual appears to be written in Klingon language by a non-user...the age old problem of cheap poorly written manuals continues...
But for the money it is a great bargain - I love mine and will be using it every week recording live gigs - way to go TASCAM! If you want to make albums of your live gigs or great movie soundtracks this is your affordable solution and extremely lightweight and portable -
I LOVE IT!