... So, for Christmas, I asked for a digital voice recorder and I received the Olympus VN 1000.
It is small and has a clip so you could clip it onto your top pocket etc. The voice recorder is blue and silver. It has a built in mic and speaker but it also has a space to plug a mic or earphones ... Read review
Advantages: 16 hours recording time, small Disadvantages: Cannot edit recording at a later date
...recorder and I received the Olympus VN 1000.
It is small and has a clip so you could clip it onto your top pocket etc. The voice recorder is blue and silver. It has a built in mic and speaker but it also has a space to plug a mic or earphones in.
There are three main folders: A, B and C. This helps me to organise my subjects. There is a forth folder (S), this is designed for recording meetings as there are enough folders ... ...instructions - I haven't tried it yet!)
Recording is easy. You just press the record button and speak into the mic. You can put it on a high or low recording setting. High picks up the surrounding sounds, low generally just picks up your voice.
Recordings are automatically saved once you stop recording. It is saved in the folder you are currently working in. You can move folders between A, B and C but if you save in ... more
When I was revising for my GCSE's I recorded all of my notes onto tape. I listened to these as often as possible: when eating my breakfast, when going to sleep or when I was making cards. I found that this was very effective although I did have two main problems. First of all, it was a nuisance having to keep changing the tape for each subject (I only recorded one topic of a subject per side of a tape and I was studying at least 9 subjects each with at least two topics. So as you can imagine I had quite a few tapes!) My second main problem was when I played it back when going to sleep, the tape continued to whirr after the speaking had finished. So, for Christmas, I asked for a digital voice recorder and I received the Olympus VN 1000.
It is small and has a clip so you could clip it onto your top pocket etc. The voice recorder is blue and silver. It has a built in mic and speaker but it also has a space to plug a mic or earphones in.
There are three main folders: A, B and C. This helps me to organise my subjects. There is a forth folder (S), this is designed for recording meetings as there are enough folders for 1 per day of the year (according to the instructions - I haven't tried it yet!)
Recording is easy. You just press the record button and speak into the mic. You can put it on a high or low recording setting. High picks up the surrounding sounds, low generally just picks up your voice.
Recordings are automatically saved once you stop recording. It is saved in the folder you are currently working in. You can move folders between A, B and C but if you save in S it has to stay there. It is extremely easy to erase files. You just press the erase button then enter to confirm.
You can play back on normal, fast or slow speed. There are 10 volume settings, which I find useful depending on when I'm playing it back. For example when I'm making cards I have it on the loudest setting because I don't have it on the surface where I am working.
I have played back both with earphones and on the built in speaker and both gave excellent results.
There are three quality settings for recording. I use the lowest as it means that I get 16 hours recording time. I have not noticed any difference in quality. (When I first started using it I did record on the higher quality.)
It uses two AAA batteries. So far I have made about 5 or 6 recordings, two of which were over an hour and a half each. I have also played them all back and I am still using the original batteries that it came with. The battery display also still appears full so it looks like there's a lot of battery power left.
If you are recording and make a mistake you cannot stop and rewind. If you stop the recording you cannot edit it (as far as I know - it doesn't say anything in the instructions. If anyone knows how you can edit it please drop me a note in my guestbook) You can pause it and then go back to it but it only pauses for a few minutes.
The voice recorder comes with about 6 booklets of instructions (each in different languages) and they are pretty easy to follow.
Overall, I am very pleased with this digital voice recorder. I think my parents made a very good choice! I think it is ideal for what I want and with it being so small (10cm x 4cm x 2cm) it can easily fit into my pocket or my handbag. I also think people who would like to record meetings etc would find this useful.
