Marantz PMD 620 Flash Memory Recorder
The highly usable Marantz PMD 620
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From Spoken Word to Digital Audio File
How do you get from a spoken conversation to an audio recording to a digital audio file to an archive CD?
Equipment, baby, equipment.
That’s what this part of Family Oral History Using Digital Tools is all about.
Assembling a portable audio setup is akin to “the thigh bone’s connected to the leg bone.” You need to connect this to that to that.
For spoken conversation? A microphone. To store it? A recording device. And media— whether old school cassettes to new school flash memory or a hard disk drive. Then a way to transfer to your computer. Sometimes the computer is both recorder and storage.
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Archival Media
Media to use for archival storage of your recordings More...
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USB Device
Converts analog audio signals to digital (and back) and digital stream via USB More...
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Headphones
Used to monitor the sound while recording More...
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Minidisc Recorder
Records sound direct to digital, stored on small minidiscs More...
Hard Disk Recorder
Records audio input direct to digital much like the flash memory recorders, but stores the recordings on an internal hard disk More...
Flash Memory Recorder
Solid state recorders have no moving parts. Recorder converts sound input directly to digital; recordings are “born digital.”
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Cassette Recorder
The standard tape recorder, dating from the 1970s. Magnetic tape stores sound in analog fashion. (It’s the technology that started this web site.) More...
External Preamp
Takes a weak microphone signal and amplifies it to line level without adding much noise. More...
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Single Point Stereo Microphone
Integrated, two mics in a single container. Many different configurations, from stereo sound, to two mics that can be placed in two different locations.
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Handheld Microphone
The well-known handle with sphere or capsule on the end More...
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Lavalier Microphone
Small microphone designed to be clipped to clothing. Easy to ignore. More...
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Boundary Microphone
Use on flat surface such as a table. The surface extends the microphone’s ability to capture sound.
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