Micro-cassette tape recorders have their place, but lawers, doctors, podcasters, students, writers, composers security employees and many others can benefit more with a high-tech digital audio recorder. The recording can be easily edited, sorted, reviewed. Or transferred to a PC. Perfect for transcribing meetings minutes, students recording classes and lectures, or doctors and lawers doing a lot of dictating.


A digital voice recorder recommendation depends on your intended use, and level of technological comfort. To start, make sure your digital voice recorder has these important characteristics:

•    Recording time

A good digital voice recorder should have at least a dozen hours of recording time, allowing for many extended-length recordings. Time limits shouldn't be an issue. This means the DVR must have enough memory to store your recordings, as well as good battery performance.

•   USB PC connection

The voice recorder should be able to connect to a PC via USB cable. This allows us to quickly and easily transfer our recordings to computer for archiving or CD creation.

•   Simplicity versus functionality

A simple DVR means greater ease of use, but you may be giving up functionality and options in the process. Are you a gadgety type that likes having more control over the recording process? Or would you rather just keep things as easy to use as possible?


Sticking with basics, try the Edic-mini Tiny B21. This DVR is simple and meets our above requirements:

•   Long recording time - available modifications (with maximum recording duration in hours): B21-300h, B21-600h, B21-1200h. 
•   PC connection - built-in USB interface (exchange speed up to 5.5 Mb).
•   Simplicity - B21 is operated with a single push-button.
•   Functionality - Voice Activating System, password protection, timer recording.

Moreover, the tiny size of the recorder (40x10x15 mm) has been confirmed as world's smallest by Guinness World Records in 2007.
B21 is great for those who want a quality, low-cost digital voice recorder, both for professionals and amateurs, like students, casual users or private investigators, police and security workers. 

  
For those who must have the best digital voice recorder, try the Edic-mini Pro B42. It provides all the functionality, quality and recording time needed for intensive professional users. Able to record up to 1200 hours with battery life up to 240 hours (with VAS, sampling rate 8 K Hz, without compression). It has two-line OLED display, offering high contrast ratio, 8 user’s settings of the recording parameters (profiles) and 3 control buttons, enabling to change the recorder’s parameters without connecting it to the PC. B42 is recommended for doctors, lawyers, reporters, investigators or anyone with massive amounts of voice recordings.


Consider how much recording time you need.
Newer models are always coming out that have more and more recording time available on them, so even if you plan on using your recorder constantly you should be able to find one that suits your needs. One thing to remember, is that Edic-mini recorders allow you to record at different levels of quality. The advertised maximum recording time we specify (e.g. 300h, 600h, 1200h) is available at the medium quality setting, which hopefully will suit your needs - the last digits in the name of the models show the maximum recording duration in hours – sampling rate 8 k Hz, 2 bit ADPCM.

Picking a microphone is almost as important as picking a recorder. Of course, our recorders come with their own built-in microphones. That's how they record, obviously. And the built-in microphones are fine if you're only going to record while holding the recorder up near you. Built-in microphone operating distance of Edic-mini recorders is 7- 9 m. But if you plan on giving a speech and recording it, or recording someone else's presentation, or recording people more than a short distance away in a room, you should get an external microphone. Fortunately, TS-Market offers a number of qualitative inexpensive models. You can choose a suitable one from the wide range presented at our site, for example:

•   External microphone with compressor (+/-6 dB)
•   Miniature amplifying external microphone (+10 dB)
•   Programmable External Microphone with AGC
•   External microphone with AGC and compressor and others.