Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have been making short recordings for youtube and working in different environments which meant I needed something to handle audio that gave me more control and better quality that the camera's ability. I was using a directional mic fed into the M50 mirrorless camera, but the audio was always garbage. The DR-70D field recorder provided me with all of the flexibility I need for my small scale projects and the quality is awesome! I can utilize 4 different mics while providing some with phantom power and others without. The interface is simple to use (expecting you know something about audio) and the gain control on the front provides you with easy controls for each mic. The additional line out for headphones is great for monitoring the recording and making adjustments so I don't miss anything. I also really like being able to record the audio as either stereo by combining channels 1 / 2 and 3 / 4 or I can record each one as a mono channel and gain more control in post production. Powering the DR-70D: Although it can run off of 4x AA batteries, I run it entirely off of my usb travel charger. With a 25,000mA capacity, the battery requires charging if I use 4 mics on phantom power after about 40+ hours of recording. Without using phantom power, 40 hours of recording dropped the battery percentage by only 2%! I'm not a huge fan of running devices off regular batteries if I don't have to and the option to use an external battery was a requirement. Who is this recommended for? If you are just getting into recording, understand things like gain, peak, bitrates, XLR vs 3.5mm, phantom power, and such, this is a great entry level field recorder that provides great audio. If you don't know what any of those things are, this is NOT for you. If you have a small studio and want to have better audio than the camera's mic, or you use an external mic and would like to improve the overall audio quality, this is a great option. Finally, the built in stereo, omni-directional mics provide a great option for capturing ambient noises, or you can use them to capture the room noise and use that profile to help filter unwanted noises from the recording. Keep in mind, this recorder does NOT do the editing for you, it simply records the audio. You need to do the editing yourself in a program like Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, etc. While this will improve the overall recording quality, if your mic is not good, you can still get bad audio. Each piece of recording equipment should be designed to do what you need it to do! In other words, if you plug in a cheap mic, expect cheap sound. The DR-70D can only record what is sent to it.

I travel a lot with equipment without documentation and this works for me perfectly, not heavy and small

This is the perfect recording solution with DSLR for movie creation.

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