Reddit reviews Sony Digital Flash Voice Recorder (ICD-PX312)

Buy a small dictaphone (recording device) and keep it on you at all times. Record her fucking abuse for a few months and then go to the police, explain that it's been going on for as long as you can remember. Your mom needs to be behind bars. This kind of shit is way beyond unacceptable.

Something like this should do it.

my setup is pretty easy:

• I have a Y-Jack that connects to my headset & plugs into the comms port. One wire goes to the headset, the other gets plugged into my audio recorder.
  
  
• I have a 1/4 to 1/8 inch cable that allows the headset to be plugged into my audio recorder.
  
  
• Finally, the audio recorder itself.
  
  I then match the audio to the video in post-production.
  
  

You're both kind of right, but if you think interviews will be part of your research toolkit in the long-run, go ahead and pick up a device. Also, a practical matters: Are you always going to be recording in controllable, quiet environments? If not, you'll need a dedicated device that can record more clearly and may even have background noise filtering. Also, battery life: Don't risk the battery dying on your phone during an interview -- that's unprofessional! Also, don't underestimate how much better the quality needs to be when you're transcribing for research purposes.

tl;dr: Unless you're absolutely strapped for cash get something like this higher-end device or this budget device.

Yeah, a lot of people use something like this one, since it's got a USB connector, decent battery life, and is in the $50-ish range.

Also, it's quite small, which is important. Because of confidentiality restrictions, you often need to be able to store a recorder at work, so it should be able to easily fit inside a folder in a filing cabinet. Of course, being able to upload the recordings to a computer via USB and delete them from the recorder itself is also a good solution.

Yes. Here in Korea I use a Sony PX312 to capture native speaker dialogue out and about. Sound quality's amazing and it was very cheap.

Instead of getting an audio adapter for GoPro (which doesn't let you record cockpit sound), I recommend buying a digital voice recorder with LINE IN (I have this one) and a simple 1/8in to 1/4in audio adapter cable. You plug the recorder into the headset jack and let it record your intercom, while your camera records the ambient noise. You can mix the two and tune audio levels in post-production. It costs about the same as the GoPro cable you linked to but gives you better results.

(I basically stole the idea from here.

Two pieces of advice

1. If you aren't going to do anything visually interesting either with multiple camera angles, or visual aids, consider skipping video all together and just go with audio alone. I can count the number of youtube roleplaying channels worth actually watching and not just listening to on one hand. Also, you've now opened up the podcast market.
   
   
2. I swear the very best audio recordings I've ever had from a game session, and this is with some audiophile friends of mine lugging boxes of gear around and setting up multiple mics and being an huge hassle, was with a single decent voice recorder. Turns out a device purpose built to be placed on a table and record just the sound of people talking does a damned fine job of it. Sony ICD-PX312 specifically, shoved into a piece of foam to hold the mic end up, and insulate it from table noices (dice rolling and bumping). <$40 used https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004M8SSZK/

[This digital voice recorder under my I can dream wish list would be amazing] (http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Digital-Flash-Recorder-ICD-PX312/dp/B004M8SSZK/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1HSZ4B20C9LPB&coliid=I1B7FKDV2UV3YA). I'm a Spiritual Medium and an aspiring author so these would help me with my readings and brainstorming sessions immensely.

I had a friend once who was obsessed with the word pickle; she got so excited when we discovered there was a pickle festival not too far from me.

Reviewers on Amazon seem to like it. I like Canon equipment and the image stabilization in their Vixia line of camcorders is sweet. I don't think this would be a bad starter camera at all.

Take the $200 you save by not getting a T3i and buy an audio recorder, and lav mics.lower budget recorder

I see that there is a firmware project for the SX50 which features RAW mode, scripting for time lapse, cool stuff. It's being actively developed. CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit

I have one of these and I like it because I can record lectures and go back and review them if I need to. It even has separate "folders" to organize several subjects until you can get to them/ download them. If you do use something like this, it's helpful to add little timestamps in your notes that correspond to the time in the digital recorder every once in a while so you can fast forward to what you need without having to re-listen to the whole lecture all over again

as long as it records digitally, that's what you need. Something like this maybe?
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Digital-Flash-Recorder-ICD-PX312/dp/B004M8SSZK/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1370384214&sr=8-11&keywords=digital+stereo+microphone
On the more expensive side of things, there are stereo mics like this one here, which are dreamy:
http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-ZH4N-Portable-Digital-Recorder/dp/B001QWBM62/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1370384214&sr=8-5&keywords=digital+stereo+microphone