Customer Reviews
Olympus WS-200S 128 MB Digital Voice Recorder
the recorder record and play ok but two things I am disappointed:
1. the battery is not included even thought the package claims it does.
2. the battery indidcator does not work well. It would show full charge and then unexpectedly, recoding was interrupted with low charge displayed. However, after one powers cycly the unit, the battery shows full charge again.
Get an external mike...
and all of your noise, static, etc. problems will go away. Of course, if you are handling the mike you will still have noise problems. I use it to record live music in a dance hall environment--lots of background noise. I lay the recorder on the table, and put the mike on a mini-tripod in front of the speaker. Set the Quality to high--stereo at 44.1Khz sampling, set the mike sensitivity to LOW, and plug in an external mike--one that is on a cord and physically separate from the recorder body and NOT one that just plugs in at the jack and becomes a part of the recorder. You will get clean, clear stereo recordings with very very low background noise levels.
Bill C.
Pretty much in line w/ what other reviewers have said.....
Others reviewers said that it records well, but if you so much as look at it cross eyed, you get terrible audio 'static' for lack of a better word.
And you know what? They were exactly right. For my purposes I can let my recorder lie still while it records about 98% of the time, but the other 2% of the time, I know I'll have to lower the volume on my computer big time when I play it back b/c the noise will horrendously loud, and I'll be lucky to hear what I was trying to record in the first place.
So, it's a great recorder for the money IF you can let it lie still while it records. If you can't, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT buy this recorder.
