Digital Voice Recorder, COOAU 8GB Rechargeable Dictaphone, Portable Sound Audio Recorder, MP3 Player, A-B Repeat, USB, Noise Canceling, One-button Recording for Interviews, Lectures, Conferences

bought so I could avoid taking my phone into meetings at my job and also to quickly capture ideas for writing prompts or snippets of dialogues, this little gizmo seems to be perfect. It feels solid and is fairly easy to use (I have not found how to set the date yet but aside from that, it's pretty intuitive). The external mic option may be useful in the future for podcasting or music recording. Less intrusive and distracting than a phone in meetings and small enough to carry anywhere.

Cheap and basic but good value for money. Some points to note: first it ONLY records in WAV format. (it can playback in WAV, MP3 or WMV but I am guessing no-one will use this as a player) The sound quality is OK - but there is some background noise in monitoring and less so in all recordings - just about acceptable. There are numerous clicks and loud spikes when recording with VAR on and when switched off there are still a few - this makes this recorder not fit for recording interviews where the quality is important. It may have a high quality data rate but that means nothing if the recording is broken by frequent cracks and pops. The settings are effectively auto on everything. The left and right level meter display is a sham and merely a looping animated icon to give the impression sound is recording. The voice activated recording VAR works OK but it will clip a half second of the first word of each section when it starts - with a loud crack. The file timecode relates to the first moment the VAR recording starts - after that you have no reference about when the VAR had kicked in to record subsequent clips. The interface is poor, slow to use and not intuitive... typically Chinese. As a dictaphone this has no functionality - it can't rewind a set amount and review so useless in that role. Scanning forward in long clips is very tedious and hit and miss. As a backup recorder for lectures it is fine. As a separate recorder to support recording video on say a gopro then it is just about acceptable quality but you will have to risk the cracks and pops will interrupt. The manual is rubbish (of the same quality as the Amazon listing above)

This is a six star product. There are many reasons, but the first is that it packs a mighty punch that puts to shame recorders that are five times the price. It comes already partly charged and includes a tie clip microphone, mini jacks, usb leads and even a pair of ADSL leads. It is extremely solidly built and can be slipped unobtrusively in your pocket with the clip-on mic lead fed through your clothing. So two of these units could be used for an interview, or for many other applications. It also has an earphone port, a small menu/function display and reasonably clear controls. There is a volume control for both playback and recording, an inbuilt equaliser, a small speaker and various storage settings. The files can be instantly uploaded for editing. The sound quality is extremely good when output to a computer or other system with larger speakers, and when adjusted for example on a video editing time line. A single device can be used for anything from making personal notes, to recording a conference, telephone call, business meeting, interview, and even a feature film, documentary, or journalism/reporting on a budget. The saved audio files are a doddle to import into a video editor and synced with the visuals. It is a lo-tech video solution that costs a tiny fraction compared with conventional audio set ups for video shooting, which normally relies on multiple radio/bluetooth links, a transmitter, receiver and other complicated equipment such as boom-mics, condensor mics, shotgun mics etc. The build quality is second to none yet the form factor is very small. This is by far the best price to quality ratio audio device on Amazon and knocks spots off other more well known devices costing a lot more. This product is highly recommended.

Easy to use. Everything is just okay. the sound quality is good for short notes easy to conceal. Good for meeting in a room with little background noise the lapel mic is briliant and better than the main microphone better as a sound recorder than a note taker

It is a sturdy machine, recorded well (from radio) The miniaturisation of mobile phones which seemed to be continuous quickly ceased and in fact reversed partly because of the size of human hands - and limitations of eyesight. The instruction booklet is very limited. But also minuscule print, minuscule drawings with arrows and I spent an an hour copying it out...I reached for my magnifying glass but then lost the will to live and decided not to keep the item.... I fail to comprehend the reviews which do not mention the inadequate instructions and most of all the problems of actually utilising the machine. Maybe the reviewers are very well Informed and /or intuitively’ know how to manage things and have a tame zebra finch to work the buttons with their beaks 🤗..? or know which know which ones to use by telepathy But I gave two stars only because as it recorded well - though lost it when I was trying to find how to save - and is sturdy. I thought it looked simple. It does. It isn’t.

This is a tiny, good quality sound recorder that can also help monitor sound for a camera. Even expensive cameras often do not have headphone outputs, but you can split the mic input between the camera and this voice recorder and then monitor the sound via the headphone output of the recorder. Or you can record just into the recorder and sync the audio waveforms when editing, muting the camera's audio. One minor annoyance is that the audio in the .wav could not be seen by Adobe Premiere CS6 so had to be converted (via audition). Small enough to fit lengthways into some phone mounts to go on the shoe of the camera.