I just bought an Olympus DS-40 and the TP-7. The DS-40 is a digital voice recorder with a higher-end mic on it for recording podcasts. The TP-7 is a mic specially made for recording phone calls on both land-line and cell phones. I’ve been borrowing an Olympus WS-320M from work to record podcast episodes. It works ok, but the mic isn’t that great. It does have 1GB of storage on it, but it’s not like you’d use it as a flash drive. I was looking at the WS-331m because it had 2GB of storage and was a step up for the 320M, however, it was still the lower-grade recorder series.
I ha kicked around the idea of getting an iPod with a microphone attachment, but I read several reviews that were saying recording just sucked the juice out of the battery. So much that they died after anywhere between 1-1.5hrs of use.
I’m really hoping this’ll ship tomorrow before the 1st. I’ll try to remember to post a review after I try it out. If it works well, we’ll definitely be using this in our January episode.
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