12.0 Recording Audio
12.1 Entering Recorder Mode
Use the Mode Selector to enter
Recorder mode which will immediately
display the Recorder Mode menu.
12.2 Basic Recorder Operations
Set
record options
by selecting
Rec Type
from the menu. (See
“Understanding and Navigating Menus“
on pg. 11. for details on navigating
menus.) From the Rec Type sub-menu, you can configure whether to
record in WAV format or MP3 format. WAV files are not compressed, thus
they produce high fidelity recordings, but require a lot of storage space.
MP3 encoding is “lossy”, so MP3 recording are not as high-fidelity as
WAV. Nevertheless, they can sound excellent (depending on the recording
bitrate) and they require
significantly
less storage space.
After selecting a fie format, you can choose a bitrate at which to record
your audio. Like high photo resolution, higher bitrates produce higher
quality audio, but also require more storage space.
These are the basic recording operations:
●
To
record
, select
Now Recording
from the menu. As you record, the
display will show (a) the name of the file under which the recording will
be saved, (b) the elapsed time of the current recording, (c) a
countdown timer that indicates how much recording time is possible,
based on available storage space, and (d) a recording-in-progress
indicator.
●
To
pause
a recording, press the PLAY/PAUSE button.
●
To
stop recording
, press the MENU button.
●
Once the recording ends, you can
create another recording
by
pressing the PLAY button.
To return to the Recorder Menu, press the VOL button. Press VOL a
second time to return to the Mode Selector.
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