Comments on: Tascam DR-05 Review | A Quality, Affordable Audio Recorder

By: Janet McConnaughey

Janet McConnaughey — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:31:25 +0000

Tim — try plugging the memory card into your laptop and playing from that.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:33:37 +0000

Firstly, I’m not planning to do a podcast. I am in an amateur writing group/workshop that with weekly prompts writes one short story a week. We then each week read our stories aloud and are critiqued by fellow students and the teacher. I, unfortunately, often am unable to read aloud without falling apart. Aside from therapy or a hypnotist, I’d like to be able to share my work without turning into a babbling, snively idiot. I practice my stories at home ahead of time and there’s no problem, but get me in front of a small group, even people I’m familiar with, and I often fall to pieces. Can you suggest a recording device that I can record my reading ahead of time and then use in class to replay and that a small group of 5-10 people migjt be able to hear. I currently write on an Apple laptop or an Apple computer that I print hardcopy from. Not sure whether I could use my laptop instead. I’m no computer geek. Tying my shoe laces is a challenge! Maybe I should just wear slippers? Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I’m loving writing but the in class breakdowns is killing me!

By: Liz Hutchinson

Liz Hutchinson — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:47:11 +0000

Hello. Everyone who thinks the volume to playback recordings is too low, hear this: YOU NEED HEADPHONES. It is designed for playback with headphones. Always have headphones with your device and there is no problem. I personally find The Tascam DR-05 to be an absolutely brilliant bit of kit producing really great results. I’ve used it to record live music, interviews, experimental sounds, wedding speeches… it’s really useful with or without an external mic.

By: Daryl Kirkup

Daryl Kirkup — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 05:17:30 +0000

Hi Guys,
I have a Tascam DR-05 and have just bought a Rode Smartlav+ mic however, when I plug the Rode into the external mic socket on the top of the Tascam, I can’t get audio through. When I record directly into the unit’s two inbuilt mics, it works fine. If I plug the Rode into my smartphone, it works perfectly. Is there a setting on the Tascam that I’m missing or do I need a splitter?

By: MA Spencer

MA Spencer — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:16:43 +0000

The volume is far too low. I need to wear headphones to confortably listen to an indoor inteview. What am I doing wrong?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:25:00 +0000

What’s the best way to record telephone conversations using the DR 05

By: TOny

TOny — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:08:00 +0000

Good recording quality and easy to use, but the built in speaker is poor. Max speaker volume is fairly low and its audio quality is unacceptaple.You have to literally put it to your ear like a phone to listen to playback even at max volume.I purchased for this to record nature sounds like birds tweet and water drops etc. because in description says it could. But I don’t believe so. The audio is way too quiet even I set the volume at the highest level. Also, a lot of buzzing noise could be heard. It isn’t worth $100 at all and IPhone recorder may do the same as this thing.
Fast boot time (only about 3 sec)Sturdy for the price,nice build quality.

By: Andrés

Andrés — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:29:00 +0000

In reply to Matthew McLean.

Hi Matthew! first of all, thank you very much for everything.

I am having the same issues as Jake. I have tried to record interviews in a museum, with lavalier mics and also with the built-in mics, but I am not getting the sound qualitty I expected. Could you be more specific about the optimal settings for interviews and how to set the recording levels? This might be an stupid question but I am really very new at this. Sorry.

Also, I bought the Tascam Dr 05 because I wanted to do interviews outside and also podcasting at home with another person, but so far I am feeling that maybe buying the recorder for podcasting at home wasn’t such a good idea. I think it is too sensitive and I am getting a lot of background noise. Do you think there is a way to fix that? or is it better that i buy a bidirectional mic like for example the blue Yeti?

Thanks!

By: Matthew McLean

Matthew McLean — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:49:00 +0000

In reply to Jake. Hi Jake, just plug in the splitter to the Line in jack on the very top of the recorder. The device will automatically switch to picking up whatever mics you connect to that, as opposed to the built-in mics. Then you just set your levels accordingly in the same way you would with the built-ins.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:11:00 +0000

Hey there!
I actually bought the Audio Technica 3350 mics, two of them – in fact. I already had a Tascam DR-05, but now that I’ve tested it. It didn’t work well for me, as planned. But what are the optimal settings for an interview?
I bought the stereo splitter for both mics – but I’m at a loss as to how I’m meant to harness this contraption to its best. Help would be amazing and I thank you in advance if you can!