Portable recording device recommendations

I need to record, in hi-quality stereo, hours of live talks for mass production, without breaking the bank.
I am lost. I used to have a DAT recorder that was great, but no longer. Does anyone have any experience with such devices? I heard that even an ipod can record, but alas not in stereo.
Thanks,
PES

Go mini disc, cheaper than DAT and still superb recording capabilities and the media is more widely available. A DAT recorder will be higher sound quality, but if it's just voice you won't notice the difference.

I use a Sony MD recorder with an Audio-Technica ATR-25 stereo condenser DV mic with Sony Premium MD's. Bloody awesome capture for the price. They sell the mics at Musik-Eck on Corneliusstr.

@Sin
Which Sony MD model?
What the set cost you?
Thanks!

Blimey! I've had the set-up for about 4 years. I suggest you go do your own legwork.

I use mini disc as well and it is excellent. Have used an mp3 player before and it isn't as good (it wasn't an ipod).

That is what I am doing!

I find it a bit scary. I record some basslines and always my stepdaughter will wait until I'm in full flow and then come thundering down the stairs like a crazed African elephant. I stop and then she asks some question that could have waited another 2 minutes.

Then later when I play back to edit out the take, I hear her coming down stairs and take off the headphones to shout at her to keep the noise down...

...and she isn't there.

As I said - uncanny capture.

@PES I think the MD Recorder was a MZ500 (or something like that). Got it in Hertie Münchener Frieheit before it was Karstadt. I think it was around 450 Euros, but I know they are much cheaper now. The mic was about 60 Euros.

u can get some reasonable hard disk mp3/wav encoders...no removable media and bloody good quality/storage...

This being one of the more highspec machines for consumers...http://www.macup.com/aktuell/Portabler_MP3WAV-Recorder_von_Edirol/1096367375

@Sin; Thanks man. I on the hunt on Ebay as we write. Both mic and units are up for on the block...

mp3 doesn't capture well - amateur sounds.

@Sin. What do you think of this microphone? Sorry to hassle you, but you are a man in the know.

Personally, I wouldn't buy it.

the WAV is a beauty to behear though, used at the radio station i used to work at...MP3 wasn't THAT bad either...

Follow this Link mate. It`ll take you to Thomann.de and the Page with portable recording devices. They do of course have their price - but if you want high quality recordings, theres no way around paying for good gear.
Regards
LIMA

http://www.thomann.de/de/search_dir.html?s...sw=wav+recorder