I bought a handheld recorder . At the time i meant to buy the Xvive Portable but later i discovered thru reviews that it has a 3.5mm stereo line in ,and further more some reviews about Zoom H1n describe recording via line in as troublesome that needs lot of attenuation . So i couldn't afford a more pricey recorder and just noticed this recorder at Ali Express - Mechen V06 . Now at Ali Express there are maybe 100 types of handheld recorders ,many advertise crazy resolution but no brand at all ,so i dug a little deeper about this one once i noticed there is actually a real company with line of products . Thanks to a review over at You Tube ,and it is a single one review on this machine i gambled so i bought it .
First i did was using a wrong output from my mixer so my recordings were lacking the effects . Next i had the Noise Reduction at 1 ,there is a scale from 1 to 7 i think ..when it comes to Noise Reduction ,but there is also Noise Reduction off - Thank God !
..and it records well . The specs somewhere describe some odd kbs resolution of the recordings , i used the highest bitrate and Sound Forge says it is 16bit 96kHz ,unlike 24bit it advertises.. I never cared about that difference , i grew up with cassettes and making music on Amiga ,so 16 bits and 96kHz is more then enough for me !
Thru out these 5-6 recordings i did these past few days i did not pushed the mixer very hard and i noticed you don't have to ,the faders are at 2-3 and feeding well this little thing while the gain settings on the Mechen are at 2 .The recordings are not too loud which is expected and it needs some leveling afterwards , but one thing i noticed is that Resampling the recording to 48kHz helps a lot . The rest is little bit Soft Limiting and you have a descent WAV recording twice cheaper .
This is recorded with Mechen V06
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