If you are into making recordings or picking up samples to create your own instrument, you are probably already aware that the quality of the sample or recording is of upmost importance. If you begin with a bad sample, you will have an even harder time trying to work with it. You can always make a sound more distorted but the same doesn’t work the other way. It’s much like taking a low quality picture and trying to blow it up to a large size – it can be done but the quality will be unacceptable. Voice recordings are perhaps the most sensitive to this issue as well. Any sort of noise in the background can be eliminated to some extent – but it has its limits.
Tascam pocket recorders use a mix of directional microphones to ensure that the world is being recorded, and not just a section of …
