Upgrade!

After many years of using my trusty tape recorder (actually, this is my second identical model), I finally took the plunge and upgraded to a digital model this weekend. The last straw was in trying to transcribe interviews for my last article, using a brand new tape, when I had audio bleeding in from the second side into the first, making a portion of the interview unintelligible.  (Fortunately, that interview was winding down and I didn't really lose anything in the bleed before it carried on to the next interview). That, and while it was great for doing phone interviews, doing them in person meant that the noise of the motor was becoming more intrusive on the tape as time went on.  So it was time to go.

I'm still playing with the new digital one, but so far so good. I know I should have been on this particular bandwagon for a while now, but I'm rarely, if ever, an "early adopter" of new technology, and I hadn't been too thrilled with the quality of the digital sound until recently. That my old computer couldn't have handled the files was another consideration, but that problem has since been solved. I'm quite looking forward to really trying out this new recorder in the days and weeks ahead.