Be very careful with external power sources. The center conductor is negative. Most other devices have the center conductor positive. Don’t know why Roland did this. It can cause confusion and possibly blow your external power input.

I don’t care about all the effects and bonus toys as anybody doing serious video is going to be working in post anyhow. I also do not care one little bit about if it is 2 pounds or 3 pounds or 5 pounds.

Roland seems to be so out of touch with their consumers. And all of these types of recording device seem to be way behind the ball on the TSUNAMI WAVE of interest in high quality DV that is coming with cameras like the 7D and 550D. Sharpen your pencils Roland!

One question though – if it’s 4 hours at 44 khz, does it drop significantly at 96 khz or 192?

Actually that’s quite sufficient for me, but it would be a pain to have to switch the batteries every 30 minutes or something – kind of like having to babysit. It would be much preferable to have a 12 cell battery pack or something designed to power it if it makes a huge difference. I can live with 3-4 hours of recording time on one set of batteries.

I am considering the R44 as a field recorder for double-system sound, but need some sort of time reference either on or in the file to be able to use it efficiently. With the time stamp I can match up a particular recording with each video clip in post.

Thanks,
Dean Sensui
Executive Producer
Hawaii Goes Fishing