Technology is becoming amazing. I've just received this Zoom F2 field recorder. Designed for podcasters on the go it records using 32bit floating software. The advantage of that is it is impossible to record a sound that 'distorts' as it peaks. With 16bit recorders any sound over 110 dB, say a jet engine, will crash the capture buffer and there's nothing that can be done to save the audio. In this tiny recorder (as described to me) "there's no sound in the entire planet it could not capture". All in something not much bigger than a 50p and costing under £200. I've been testing it today ahead of it going to Bass Rock as a back up recorder trial, attached to the presenter Martha Kearney for Open Country. That will test it, sea, gannets, wind. I'm looking forward to hearing the results.
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