Concert recordings?

[uapyro]

Does anyone have any tips for using the X51V to do concert recordings? I've talked to the band personally, and they don't have a problem with recordings of any type, so now its time to record.

What are the best ways to do it? The main problem I had was with the time it took to writer a file using the recording feature in the notes program, with the mic auto-leveling. Would Resco Audio Recorder be better? Or another solution? Mainly the write time is my issue.

Also, what is the best way to hold it? In my recordings, it was able to pick up some (annoying) people around me, which I didn't even hear before the recording, is there a way to point it so that it gets the overall sound and now just sounds really close to me?

[Menneisyys]

Does anyone have any tips for using the X51V to do concert recordings? I've talked to the band personally, and they don't have a problem with recordings of any type, so now its time to record.

What are the best ways to do it? The main problem I had was with the time it took to writer a file using the recording feature in the notes program, with the mic auto-leveling. Would Resco Audio Recorder be better? Or another solution? Mainly the write time is my issue.

Also, what is the best way to hold it? In my recordings, it was able to pick up some (annoying) people around me, which I didn't even hear before the recording, is there a way to point it so that it gets the overall sound and now just sounds really close to me?

I really recommend What Can I Do With My Axim?. It links to my article on everything sound recording-related at http://pocketpcmag.com/blogs/menneis...corderApps.asp , where this question is also thoroughly explained.

[bluevolume]

Also, what is the best way to hold it? In my recordings, it was able to pick up some (annoying) people around me, which I didn't even hear before the recording, is there a way to point it so that it gets the overall sound and now just sounds really close to me?

This is really going to depend on what you want the recordings for. If it is just to say you have them, and to prove you were at the concert or something, then you could probably figure out a way to make it work. If it is something that you plan on actually listening to, that's a different story.

The microphone in the Axim or any other PDA is designed to capture narrow-band audio. This works well for spoken word but is really bad for most anything else. They also have a bias that works well with high-gain, which on the downside introduces a lot of noise. But, even if you used an external microphone, there is no real level control built into the Axim, so you would have to use an external pre-amp for the mic. You would then have to deal with the noise inside the Axim itself (chipsets, backlight for the screen, etc). Some of the newer software (Resco) has gotten pretty good with "stream" saving the audio to a storage card, so that might not be as big of an issue, but if you were recording for an hour just to see that your Axim has locked up, that would not be good.

Don't get me wrong, with the right setup you can turn the Axim into a fairly decent audio recorder. The problem in this situation is that you are recording a source with a huge dynamic range, and you have no control over the volume. Like I said, you probably could manage that somewhat with an external mic and a pre-amp, but if you're going that far you might as well just use a portable DAT or something that is designed for this.