OM System WS-882 Digital Voice Recorder with PCM/MP3 Linear Recording Formats, Direct USB, 4GB Playback Speed and Volume Adjustment, File Index, Clear Files

Overall for the price point its good. I almost went with 4 stars, but its working excellent and a lot better than an old school micro-cassette recorder of the past. Price point is very attractive. LOL.... The user interface is very dated, but works. And lets face it if you are using a voice recorder like this you might want this old school interface. They could still clean up the old interface better and make it easier to use, but it works. The manual is of no help. If you use a microSD card, the max supported size is 32gb, which believe it or not are getting harder to find. The biggest issue is that with a 32gb brand name card boot times are like 20 seconds. 20 seconds before you can hit the record button and get the idea out of your head. I found a 8gb brand name card and that boot time is 8.4 seconds. Better. But if you use the internal storage the boot time is only 4 seconds.... 8 gig is plenty of storage, but I still don't like waiting that extra 4 seconds.... Audio quality off the built in mics is surprisingly good as is using an even better external mic. I think you could get good enough podcast quality in mp3 128 stereo mode using an external mic. Which means you wouldn't need to go to a wireless mic solution for audio and these are super cheap to have multiple units recording, lets say two or three people with each person on their own recorder and mic wired up to them. The built in mics would not be quite good enough IMHO for a podcast, but you can get it out of an external mic. (see my hold notes below) Duping from a cell phone to the unit works and they have a mode for it. However if you have high quality coming out of your cellphone into this unit (music) its not very good once recorded. I'm speculating some sort of DRM or A/D converter issue. But if you had a conversation from a cassette tape to this, that works excellent. Battery life is excellent. Manual stinks. Lots of trial and error.. Here is a useful feature: If you start a recording and use the power off switch, thats also a hold feature, witch makes it so that you can't accidentally press any buttons and interfere with the recording. That's a great feature that isn't documented, but if you were putting this recorder on someone in their pocket with a mic, then you would do this so that it doesn't accidentally stop recording.

Good reliable product...

Tiene buena calidad de grabacion, es compatible con microfonos lavalier que tengan conector jack trs 3.5mm, la he usado con uno tradicional y uno inalámbrico y graba muy bien asi ya puedo grabar buen audio y se pueden alejar todo lo que quieran de la camara, tambien use la grabadora con un microfono direccional y tambien funciona muy bien, al igual al usarlo sin micronos externos la grabación es buena solo que es preferible colocarlo en una mesa si no quieren que se escuche ruido de friccion al estarlo sujetando con la mano, otras funciones muy interesantes que tiene son la funcion de reproductor de musica y grabadora de musica ya que tiene entrada para audifonos, ya probe la funciones de grabar musica y funciona bien por que detecta los cortes entre una pista y otra y te crea archivos mp3 separados en automatico, tiene perfiles para grabar desde CD o cassette seria conectarle el dispositivo con un cable de adio al jack del microfono y regular el volumen para que no se sature, tambien cuenta con funciones de cancelacion de ruido y normalizacion, otro dato genial es que le dura mucho la bateria yo lo uso con unas recargables nimh y no se han agotado todavia.

Highly recommend this recorder with the stipulation that you have to be willing to read a big instruction booklet to learn the great features. It seems to be able to do anything if you learn the various features. You can also more quickly learn the very basic operations if you’re not ambitious about learning it all.

j'en avais déjà une depuis plusieurs années , je suis très satisfaite , j'en voulais une autre au cas ou la première brise je l'ai échappe souvent par terre et elle n'a pas flanché mais au cas ou j'en ai acheté une autre