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 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: CE
New (9) Used (1) Refurbished (3) from $59.99
Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 661
Format: Cd
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 2.3 x 9
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WS-311M
Model: WS-311M
UPC: 050332400665
EAN: 0050332400665
ASIN: B000VDNC9M
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent! October 28, 2008
I just bought 3 of these for the guys at our office who do sales and recruiting and want to record their pitches for training. The sound quality using the built in mic is very good, maybe too good. It was picking up conversations across the office while recording a pitch! Plug this puppy in directly to a phone or computer to record from and you can eliminate all ambient the background stuff. My wife wants one of these so she can record record our daughter saying all her crazy little 2yr old sayings. One reason she likes it is that its very simple to use, you do not need to be a techie to use it. Once you have recorded just pull the bottom off and plug straight into a USB port, hows that for convenience? I havent tried any of the other recorders out there so there may be something better, but as someone savvy and particular about sound i.e. home theater, car speaker etc. the quality from this unit is excellent, you can stop your search here.
 Excellent October 18, 2008
The Olympus WS-311 works great. The internal mic is not the best, but an external one improves sound quality immensely. (I use it primarily to record mini-lectures for my students.) I am not a big gadget guy, but it is nice to have a single device which records and plays audio + stores data like a flash drive.
 Wish it had one more function. October 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
So far so good. There is one thing that I would change, though. I bought it for my wife, and she needs to record lines - she's an actor. If, while recording, she makes a mistake, she has to start a new file, or start over. The only way to edit is on the computer.
I'd like it more if we could stop mid-file and record over part of it.
Oh, and it works fine on a Mac. As long a s files are Mp3s.
excellent sound quality and extremely portable and light October 10, 2008
This is a great sound recorder! It's perfect for lectures and captures crisp sound at the highest quality, and has tons of memory and files so that you can organize your recordings. I highly recommend it for students and people who need to record their thoughts every now and then.
Good recorder for the price October 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this little gadget mainly for recording meetings and live music. Previously I used a Sony MD-recorder, which is also quite good but required MD-tape and the sonicstage software for transferring and editing isn't exactly very updated.
The recording quality is quite clear. One tip in recording is that make sure that both the left and right mics are equally expose. I put the recorder sideway (I originally thought that one side of the mic facing up would be ok already) in my bag when recording live music and the left and right stereo sound turned out to be a bit unbalanced.
I've compared a meeting recording between Sony MD and Olympus, which were placed next to each other, and discovered that the vocal in MD is louder but there is also sort of a background hum, whereas the vocal in Olympus is quieter but no background hum. Both recordings are quite clear so no real big issue there.
The transfer to computer is also very easy. Just plug the recorder in the USB and copy and paste the files. No need to install driver or use additional software at all.
Generally, I am quite satisfied with this recorder. It's easy to use and the recording quality is quite good. I gave it 4 star because I think that the recording quality could be better. However, keep in mind that various variables will affect the quality of the recording: how close you are to the speaker, the position of the recorder, the size of the room, etc so it's hard to judge whether it is good enough. I've done 2 recordings of the same live show from different position and received different results. Also, it would be great if the audio file could be recorded other format such as mp3 or wav and not just WMA.
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