Sony ICD-PX312 Digital Flash Voice Recorder
Manufacturer : Sony
Model : ICDPX312
ASIN : B004M8SSZK
Price : 59.95$
Last Price : 48.28$(Discount 19.466221851543%
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Sony Notetakers ICD-PX312 Digital Voice Recorder ICDPX312 Digital Voice Recorders
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103 of 106 people found the following review helpful:
Easy to transfer its MP3 audio files onto your hard drive!
This review is from: Sony ICD-PX312 Digital Flash Voice Recorder (Office Product)
The Sony website offers a download titled "Sony Sound Organizer for IC Recorder v 1.1" to help you do things like create/move/delete folders on the device. I wouldn't bother. My experience with Sony software and drivers is that it's usually buggy-as-cr@p, so why complicate my computer's environment for such trivial stuff. Any recordings made are found in the Voice/Folder1 folder, and that's all I need to know or do to snag them or erase them.
[The B600 had no computer software, no USB, etc. to support sound transfer. The only option for transferring its recordings was to use the speaker/audio out jack. I ended up using Windows Sound Recorder and the microphone in jack on the back of the PC, and even then there was some odd tweaking required to make that solution work. At the time, I would have had to cough up another forty smackers or so to get the model that provided file transfer support ... and it required software drivers to do it.]
The PX312 also has gobs of memory and will even accept an M2 MicroSD card for expansion. When some reasonably sized M2 cards get cheap as dirt, well I'll snag 'em ... but I probably won't even need them.
The weird "hold" button thing that was going on with the B600 is solved. On this PX312 there is a ON/OFF/HOLD slider switch. Pull down to turn on, pull down again to turn off. (You do have to hold it there for a few seconds sometimes.) Pull the slider switch UP for the hold function. That function locks all the buttons while the device is powered up (so you won't accidentally punch one). On the B600 the "HOLD" slider was actually nothing more than an ON/OFF slider. But anyone could have gone crazy trying to find the ON/OFF slider. Since it was cryptically labeled "HOLD."
Also gone with the PX312 is the weird "erase" function that was on the B600. With the B600, if you followed the instructions for erasing a recording, it resulted in the entire recording being played 10 times before it was erased. Why anyone would have a need for THAT to occur is beyond me. But simply pressing the "Erase" button twice in succession while playing the recording would erase the recording instantly. That approach was undocumented in the instructions. With the PX312 it's much smoother. Push the 'erase' button and the recording to be erased starts to play. The screen asks you to confirm the erase. Select "Yes" and it's gone.
Also solved: The PX312, unlike the B600, has an auto-power-off option and the timer can be adjusted by the user.
The PX312 does bring forward some unresolved shortcomings from the B600. The PX312, as was the B600, is way "over-engineered." The basic operation/buttons and the display screens are not as simple as they could be. It took a bit of reading/plowing through the manual (and reading reviews here on Amazon) to get oriented. And there is other functional overkill. I don't need five storage folders (or a way to transfer files between them), an alarm clock (and a way to select a message for the alarm), the ability to go back and splice previous messages, the ability to append recordings to existing recordings and other such what not. All those functions and buttons just complicate the device/screens/menus needlessly, imho. I just wanted a gizmo that would make audio recordings at the push of a button, that would let me move them to my computer for storage and that made them in a format that didn't require any conversion efforts. And I suspect that is just about all most users want out of these devices. I guess Sony thinks it has to load up a bunch of this useless functionality to justify the asking price.
The price of the Sony devices with this level of capability had been steadily dropping, of course, and so these PX312s cost me no more than what I paid for the ICD-B600s a few years ago. Now the ICD-B600s will be sold on eBay ... and so I've upgraded for practically nothing. Double Sweet!!
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
So far so good.
This review is from: Sony ICD-PX312 Digital Flash Voice Recorder (Office Product)
I have never used a digital recorder as such. I've had PDA's and Phones that will do that job but do not do a very good job of it. So I have no frame of reference. I am very pleased. As is typical of me I keep wanting to do things with out reading the instructions. So there is a little of ADD getting in the way. The sound quality even on the low mike setting is remarkable to me. It's very small. I expected it to be much bigger. I love that you have the option to use an external microphone and head set. I've ordered some for it, one omnidirectional and one unidirectional. I'm not sure of my choices. I'm an old ham operator so I only knew about Sure microphones and they were very expensive. I also love that it is digital. One problem I had with the old tape version is that after a while the motors started making noise that was picked up by the recorder.
The only flaws I have found is that there is no option for external power and no LED back-light. In strong light or very dark areas it is hard to read. My normal solution would be to make a shade but you have to have a back-light to do that. I may look into attaching one of those cheap key-chain lights and make a flip up shield. I researched the reviews on this same product but with different sellers and it fared well. For the money this looks like my solution for now. I'll update it later if my opinion changes. I do recommend directional and omni external mics. Another thing I may look into is making some sort of shock/wind cover so that if you have it outside or in your pocked you do not ended up recording that stuff.
Hope this helped.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
A jewel of a voice recorder
This review is from: Sony ICD-PX312 Digital Flash Voice Recorder (Office Product)
We have used this little jewel to tape lectures from the back of an auditorium, meetings, as well as online webinars - the SCENE settings allow you to change from interview to notes to lecture to meetings, just with a push of the button. Using an mini-SD chip gives you all-day recording space. Easy on the AAA batteries, too! Way to go, Sony!
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Works Fine For Me
The Sony PX312 works just fine for what I use it for. Often, I am unable to listen to my favorite talk radio shows live so I download their podcasts to my computer using the... by Jim "Tex" K
Great little recorder!
I use it to record lectures, and I think it works great. The audio quality is pristine and the battery life and memory are great! I haven't had to change the batteries yet by Rae
Not a high quality recorder
This product is low quality. I own the ux312, the ux412 and the ux512. I highly recommend the 412 because of the relation quality-price. by Gerald Leiva Herrera
fab product ...
I use this for evps and the settings allow me to expand the mics pickup ability . I would buy another if need be ... by Crazy Irish Rocker
Sony ICD-PX312 is a Winner!
I purchased the Sony ICD-PX312 to upgrade from an aging (25-year-old, I'm embarassed to say) microcassette recorder I had been using. by Chris Haywood
voice recorder great
I bought this for my son (with ADD-his counselor said it was a good idea) to use in college-he says it works great! by Brenda Peck
Compact, quality device
I am pleased with this recorder. The quality is high, the audio is sharp, and it is quite easy for me or the children to use. I would recommend it. by Eight-Isn't-Enough
Ideal for concealed recording
I bought this for concealed, one party recording. It works wonderfully. I wear it on a short lanyard around my neck, concealed underneath my shirt, and activate as necessary. by Danny L. Griffin |
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