I have sold many brands and models of digital recorders, this time I have tried many recorders. I would say that the Olympus DS-30 digital voice recorder is one of the well-rounded voice recorder is so far the design and the features it offers for the price. I like the Olympus DS-30, so I do a lot of my recordings for dictation and personal.
I use this recorder to dictate a daily diary audio recording memos and meetings registration. RegistrationMemo works great, because the compact design of the DS-30, I can easily carry around in my pocket and I hardly notice its even there, and if I need to record a short summary or an idea is always with me!
I was very pleased with the capabilities of the DS-30 to note struck in environments where a large group of people. I used the recorder in many of my church meetings, I was in a meeting room equipped with at least 200 people, including children and infants. I just setRecord in the conference, with the low-cut filter on and then when I play I started playing with noise suppression. When I play back recordings of the meetings of the church are very pleased with how clearly I can hear the speakers impressed despite all the noise back and the conditions of poor reception!
He has one of the best features of the Olympus DS-30 is the ability to index marks. Brands Index: are digital tags that are inserted during recording or during playback. They are used to jumpforward or backward in recordings of pre-selected points. Up to 16 index marks can be added in a single file. If I hear a lecture and I've heard something interesting key points in the audio file that I can easily navigate to a later date to mark.
Recording Mode
With three recording modes Olympus really knows how a digital voice recorder, must consider all the rooms would need someone in the DS-30 board to do. Mode of presentation isthe highest sensitivity of the microphone and works with large crowds and recording audio at a great distance or low volume. Conference mode: the great works in the recording sessions and seminars with a small number of people. Dictation mode, perfect for individual dictation. The DS-30 records as much as 67 hours in audio mode for lower quality, while about 4 hours of recording high-quality recording mode.
There are also other recording settings along with the Olympus DS-30, myIs the preferred low-cut filter. The low-cut filter: minimizes low frequency sounds and voices of recording more clearly. The function can reduce noise of air conditioners, projectors and other types of "white noise".
Reproduction
You can use the DS-30, with multiple play modes, in order to obtain the best quality and optimum speed. The Olympus DS-30 digital voice recorder has a noise cancellation: to be activated in order to reduce the background noise in recordings made in noisy environmentsEnvironment. In fact, the function treats the loudest sounds to be the most important and reduces other sounds to make dictation clearer.
You can use the playback speed with the DS-30 to meet your listening skills! Playback speed will vary from 0.5 times the speed of the original recording for playback in slow motion at 1.5 times the original speed for faster playback. The low speed is useful if you are transcribed, while the faster speed is useful when you need to hear a lenthyRegistering with the speed you need.
Pro
The overall result of dictation, the DS-30 professional disadvantages by far! The display of the DS-30 is a display that lights up when the blacklist is used, you can easily screen, in complete darkness! The external speaker packs a punch and can easily be heard in a noisy room. The DS-30 has five different recording folders can hold 200 files a piece, you can customize the name of the folder with the DSS Player software, whichcomes with the recorder. The DS-30 recorder also comes with a USB cable that you can easily transfer files to your computer, the computer automatically detects when you connect! A removable external microphone (ME-53) comes with the DS-30, which enables higher quality stereo recording. Aesthetically, the DS-30 looks like an elegant, stylish and compact. You can also load some favorite MP3 music files and play again.
Against
Believe it or not, I found a couple ofDisadvantages for the DS-30. It records in WMA format, which can be a bit 'of headaches for people with a Mac, as they can be played only on a Mac if you get the Windows Media Player for Mac software that comes with the DSS recorder has a function to convert audio files into another format. So you are stuck with WMA files when you download or purchase third party program audio conversion.
I was not impressed with the overall quality of the MP3 audio playback, if you're looking fora recorder, a better quality of MP3 playback, I would consider is the Olympus WS-Series. The WAS series has an equalizer and SRS WOW technology for enhanced playback.
The DS-30 has a good amount of memory, 256 Mbps, which is sufficient for most people, but too short for many users. The DS-30 offers an incredible 67 hours of recording time, but those of the lowest quality possible so that I never use (the quality is terrible) and consumes only 4 hours in high qualityMode. For those who want to record a long time in high quality mode, I recommend the Olympus DS-40 or DS-50, which is basically the same recorder, but with more memory.
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