Hello,
Speak to the Oral History Society. There is some guidance on their website, but their accredited trainers have more in-depth guidance and suggest institutions to use the Zoom H5 as the benchmark.
Rgds,
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Digital recording equipment for use in oral history interviews
Hi Rachael,
I use (not for oral history) a Tascam DR-05 and it's superb. Dirt cheap too. It has decent twin mics built in and can take an external one too, but I think if you want to use two external mics you might need to go a couple of models up to the DR-40, still under £140. I believe you have 2 XLRs/3.5mm jacks for external mics. But perhaps a single stereo mic on the DR-05 will suffice. The built-in ones get great results anyway.
I can't comment on alternatives but people also swear by the Zoom recorders.
Hope this helps,
Jeremy
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On 04/04/2019 10:48, Rachael Thomas wrote:
Hi everyone,
Auchindrain Township are looking to purchase new digital recording equipment for use in oral history interviews, including both an audio recorder and microphone. Ideally the equipment would be able to record in stereo using two external microphones, be able to record uncompressed PCM WAV files and have a USB connection. We often interview people whilst walking around our site so the equipment and any microphone needs to be portable and relatively weatherproof and (if possible) minimise wind noise as it can be pretty wild here in Argyll.
Does anyone have any suggestions or experience of similar equipment, or can suggest someone who does? Names of makes and models would be much appreciated.
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