Music Digitizer CD Recorder for Music Audio Capture Device Cassette MP3 Recorder Converter with 3.5mm & RCA Line Input

I order this unit to use for a commercial PA system installation to record the 8 microphone mixer output in a board meeting room. I permanently installed it by the recording secretary's desk and used a flash drive that has a big red read/write activity LED so that there is no mistaking as to when it is recording, or not.I did not need to use the IR remote in this application, but can confirm that it worked for all the functions it provides. However, it did seem very direction sensitive.Instead, the front mounted push button worked perfectly for her to "push once" to start recording and "push again" to stop recording. Which is all she needs to record the meetings.I have not tested it for music recordings, so I can not attest to the recording audio quality. It does fine on the voice grade recording application that I am using it for in this project.The best, and most unexpected feature, was when I tested it for power failure behavior. Since the board meetings can last as long a 6 hours, I feared that the Mp3 audio file would get corrupted if interrupted by a commercial power failure.As it turns out, when its power gets disconnected, it stops recording and automatically "closes" the session with only loosing the last 2 seconds of the audio recording. When power is restored, just push the start/stop button to resume recording as normal. There are not even any formatting issues caused to the flash drive by the power disconnect.That was critical for my application. I could not afford for the audio file to get corrupted by a power outage five hours into the meeting and loose everything up to that point.Upon the first recording on a new flash drive, it creates a new folder. Thereafter, it creates new Mp3 files inside that folder for every subsequent recording session which of course, can be renamed later. However, this unit requires the flash drive to be formatted in FAT 32 only.It will even create its new folder and files even if there are other existing files on the drive you are using without disturbing them.They do recommend to use a high level line output to drive their audio input jacks. I first tried to use the "recod out" line level from my PA amp and got recordings that were 15 db below normal. I then switched to a spare headphone output I had availible on the mixer and that worked great at about a 70% volume level.This unit worked perfectly for my application, is very inexpensive for what it does and is very user friendly. I would highly recommend it for any voice grade simple start/stop idiot proof recording applications.

Easy way to record karaoke singers. Just be sure to shut power to USB off before removing from the digitizer.

I do a lot of recording my violin with piano music that i buy. I put together booklets with those recordings and the lyrics. I have done at least a thousand of those. I did that recording for years using a USB recorder. Then I had a situation where I needed to continue the recording but silently. So I got an electric violin and I have been using that for about five years. The recordings then go into my editor and I can use the tools in the editor to improve the sound. The one thing that I get now is clicks and pops which can remove in the editor. That is challenging to do that without causing a bump in the recording. I never had that when using the USB recorder so it is from the digitizer. At times it is bad enough that I will make another recording and there will be a difference with maybe no clicks. I am a serious musician and getting a clear recording would be very nice. I now spend a lot of time cleaning things up.

The instructions are clear and precise. However, please remember, when the instruction to turn up the volume to maximum on the source to be recorded to the input of the “Music Digitizer”, (in my case is was from my computer) be careful that you don’t max out the input volume where the source amp’s audio is driven into distortion; as noted by several of the reviewers. I noticed that my Lenovo computer running MS 10 distorted in my headphones at full volume on the digital playback so I found out that 65% go over 65% volume in my computer by going to “Settings” then “Sound” software and set the max at 65%. The original Volume was somewhat low, but after you store it on your Window’s “Media Player”, and then down load it to a CD or Flash drive, the Media Player will level out the volume to the same level as all the other Amazon Music down loads I have.

Very easy to use, and the quality of the recording is much better than a cassette tape player to MP3 converter that I had also tried. But when in use for recording an analog input, the music digitizer transfers itself from recording mode to playback mode after about 4-1/2 minutes of recording. So it is not useful to me. I want something that can transfer a full CD disc of music to a flashdrive or SD card. I don't know if all of these do this, or if I just got a bad one. I would send it back, but I waited too long to try it out, and my return time ran out.

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Small compact item, read the directions, be gentle with tech objects and enjoy. Amazing small device, a bypass solution for flash drives that malfunction. Worth the price.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Allows you to record a live feed into an mp3 file in real time. If there is a power failure, your file remains on the USB stick but you have to start recording again. One button recording control, could not be any simpler. And the quality of the recording works for me.