A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I had purchased an Olympus DS-40 and TP-7. My original plan was to post some files I had recorded as examples of what it can do, but I obviously never got around to that. I would like to report that the DS-40 is amazingly meeting my needs for podcasting. We took it with us on our recent roadtrip-interview and it worked beautifully. The built-in mic on the DS-40 compared to the mic on the WS series is at least 10 times better in my opinion. Hiss and background noise are greatly reduced. The DS series has three separate settings for mic sensitivity along with different filters and quality settings you can set within the menus. The manual even gives you a chart with different circumstances and suggested settings configurations. I’m a big fan.
The TP-7 also worked wonderfully. I couldn’t quite tell how it worked by the picture, but it made much more sense after I physically had it. It’s an earbud that plugs into the mic jack of your voice recorder. On the back side of the earbud is a microphone. You put that into your ear and then talk on a landline-phone or cell phone to record your conversation. The mic picks up pretty well, however, it picks up background noise as well. I did a test call to Liz and it sounded a little breezy because there was an air purifier running about 3 feet away from me. So I would suggest recording your phone calls in quiet area if you’re concerned about background noise.
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