Portable Audio Recorder

Equipment Recomendation

General audio recording

Below are the current list of recorder that recommend for general ecordings purposes. This is mainly for language learning, survey works and casual linguistic documentation. This portable audio recorder normally is more portable, build in mic and speaker, and battery powered. This type of recorder normally do not have external XLR mic input. The recording format is usually compressed digital audio file such as mp3, but some can record WAV or PCM file too.

• Zoom H2n
• Zoom H2essential Multi-Mic Handy Recorder (32 bit recording)

Field recording

Below are the current list of recorder that recommend for field recordings purposes. This is mainly for language documentation, instrumental studies, voice over, oral bible recordings or others.

Field Studio recording

Below are the current list of recorder that recommend for field studio recordings purposes. This mainly used in a "Studio" environment, which has a better sound isolation plus the portability of the equipment is not a major concern. This is mainly for critical instrumental studies, ethnomusical recording, voice over, oral bible recordings or others.

Equipment Reviews

The following websites provide comprehensive reviews of fieldwork portable audio recorders:

• SurveyWiki
• Zach Poff.