136GB Digital Voice Recorder with Playback,9000 Hours Audio Recording Device,Voice Activated Recorder with Noise Reduction,A-B Repeat,Mp3 Player and Password for Lectures Meeting/Classes/Interviews

I was looking for an affordable hand recorder but so many of them get bad reviews or cost hundreds of dollars. This one had a decent review. Its made by the same company as my old one that just died last week after charging after not being used for a long time. This one has better features. The noise control on it works really well for my application. I use it to record my dreams. I have a loud white noise maker that my old one had no noise cancellation, so I'd have to get under the covers to record my voice to get away from recording the white noise. This just about kills ALL the white noise so my voice is real clear on the recording! I have it set on max noise control on 5 and it comes set that way anyway. It has a good gain control too. Straight out of the box its way too high and distorts my voice from it being set too high, but is easy to reduce the volume, and for office meetings the ability to control the recording volume is great. The speaker of course is really tiny and doesn't sound good but if you plug headphones in, its pretty good, but even on the highest bit rate it sounds pretty digital but not a problem for me. Recordds to WAV or MP3 tool.It does have a built in microphone but for you business types it has a lapel microphone which is a nice touch. Haven't tried it but don't need it really. Price is reasonable. The manual has a lot of reading to do, but its pretty intuitive. No idea on battery life but I suspect its pretty long, it came fully charged. It also came with the tiny TF SD card already installed, so thats another nice touch. I looked at so many of these recorders and not many of them have noise control, which I needed, and most of them had really confusing non-intuitive weird features or were just way too expensive my needs.

This works very well. Quality of recordings are great.

Instructions could be written more clearly for quick setup and the leash is not included.

This is a wonderfully working voice/memo recorder, with some small exceptions. The weight it has for its small size gives it an obvious feel of being sturdy and solidly-made. I'm very glad it's made of metal that isn't wimpy and light. The recording level/volume is also very good seeing that it has 7 gain levels although I always use the highest gain level to make sure of the recording volume being enough so the playback volume doesn't have to be the max. There is a plastic screen protector adhesive stuck to the back when you buy it, and if desired can be cut to the size of the screen so as to protect it from scratches. You can leave it at full size and cover the entire front, but covering the speaker greatly reduces playback volume and after a short while it won't stick to the buttons.Here are suggestions for the company who makes this, and also things to be mindful of for potential buyers. Although I of course wish these following things were different and to me would make this recorder to be absolutely on the top of the world perfectly ideal, to me it is still a recorder that works well and is made solid and sturdy or rugged.1) The font of the menu options and filenames, should be a Sans Serif font instead of a Serif font, and should be able to be increased at least by 1 or 2 point sizes. The lacking smoothness at certain places in the characters makes it necessary to look longer and sometimes also use a magnifying glass or reader glasses, while a Sans Serif font is smoother and easier to read.2) Certain places of text have a background that is between regular green and light green. This background is too light for the white text and it is necessary to use a magnifying glass or be in a darker room to make out the white text. In the menus, it is necessary to move the highlight off of the option that is selected in order to read it and then move the highlight back, until the menu options are memorized.3) The standby timer and power off timer do not function together, something is wrong as though a programming bug. Regardless of what I set the standby timer to, it does not obey it or else changes the setting on its own, by itself, and the recorder does not go into standby mode but instead just turns off. If the power off timer is set and the standby timer is turned off, then it turns off after that number of minutes.4) There should be brightness levels that are brighter than it goes to now. For indoor use or if it isn't very bright outside like on a dark cloudy day or at night or in darker shade, the maximum brightness is OK. However, for outdoors on a clear day with bright sunlight, even the max brightness isn't good enough. Even when I'm turned with the sun at my back, it is very difficult to read the screen, made more difficult by a Serif font that isn't smoothe and needs thicker lines or semi-bold.5) It would be very helpful if the recorder would display whatever the actual folder names are instead of only the default names of "A" & "B" & "C" & "D". I tried this by connecting the recorder to my computer and renaming the folder "A" to be descriptive of what my memos are for. The recorder still displayed the folder name of "A". It would also be helpful if there was an option to create a new folder in case of the unexpected need to make recordings about something that is realized when not at home and with no computer available. As it is now, a person must remember which of the four lettered folders are used for each particular topic that recordings are being made for (i.e., instead of being able to rename each folder to describe the topic), and if all 4 folders become used for a certain purpose then there is no option to create another folder6) Because of the small screen, the filenames should be able to be named shorter. The part of the filename that is off the screen is most of the time-stamp when the recording was made on the date portion of the filename that is visible. Which means the only way to see the full filename is to select it and then wait for it to scroll into view, but the greenish background makes the white text of the filename to be very hard to see except with a magnifying glass or in a dark room and with the brightness at the max level. There should be an additional format options for the date and also the time: for the date, MM-DD-YY (i.e., a shortened year) and MM-DD (i.e., for people who deal with their recordings soon after making them and then delete them, thus making the year unnecessary), and for the time, HH-MM to not include the seconds since it's not necessary to see what the seconds are for knowing when the recording was made.7) Since the filenames are a long sequence of numbers, an option should exist for those who would like the date and time to be separated in the filename, by a heiphen/dash between the date and time.8) The playback position should be remembered in the file being played, so it doesn't have to be fast-forwarded to while doing your best to clearly read the time as its fast-forwarding.

Sturdy unobtrusive, ..an excellent, recording platform . Functions well on data chip, or internally.

This 136GB voice recorder gets the job doneThe storage is no joke - you really can record more than you ever will need.The voice activation works great plus the noise reduction actually works wellBattery life is good - It's small enough to slip in your pocketThe password protection is a nice touch for private recordings, though the menus take a little getting used to.for the price, this little device is totally worth it. no complaintsWould recommend.

Helps with audio for youtube

I bought this digital recorder for work meetings, but it’s been a nightmare. The recording quality is grainy and distorted, even in quiet rooms—background noise drowns out speakers. The battery barely lasts 2 hours, even on ‘eco mode,’ forcing me to carry the charger everywhere. The buttons are finicky and often unresponsive, leading to missed recordings. Save your money—this device isn’t worth the hassle!