YAMAHA POCKETRAK2G PORTABLE MUSIC RECORDER

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2.5 x 6.2 inches ; 14.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B0017PEX5K
• Item model number: POCKETTRAK 2G
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,082 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 13, 2004

Product Description

Yamaha Pocketrak 2G from Yamaha offers advanced stereo audio recording in an incredibly slim package. Small enough to fit into a shirt pocket, the Pocketrak 2G is only half an inch thick, and weighs less than two ounces. The. Buy Yamaha Pocketrak 2G Pocket Digital Recorder now!... Buy Yamaha Pocketrak 2G Pocket Digital Recorder now!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent recorder, despite Yamaha's best efforts, July 30, 2009

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T. Marshall "trevmar" (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This recorder allows you to record 3 hours of 16 bit PCM, or four hundred short memo messages. Yamaha is shooting itself in the foot by trying to make this recorder appeal to too many markets. They provide a line-in, but for copy-protection reasons, only allow you to record from line-in with the 128Kbps MP3 mode. (UPDATE - You can download the 2.01a Firmware from YamahaSynth.com and upgrade the XHQ and Line recording bitrate to 160Kbps MP3). Yet the mic preamp is very good, low noise, and wide dynamic range. With an input volume setting of 6 (out of 30 levels) the recorder spectral noise-floor is more than 110dB below the overload level at the external microphone jack. And overload is smooth, no saturation distortion (such as the Zoom H2 gives when over-driven). A very nicely engineered recorder, at least partly hobbled by the Yamaha marketing department. Distortion is essentially zero. I tested the analog chain from -40dB to -3dB at several frequencies, and never found a 2nd harmonic above -64dB (better than 0.1% distortion). For what I need - a tiny 16-bit recorder for high-quality lapel microphones, this slips into an inside suit-pocket and gives superb quality PCM recordings with an excellent dynamic range. Runs 9 hours on a single AAA Eneloop, but has no SD card slot, so is limited by internal memory to 3 hours of PCM or 25 hours of 160Kbps MP3 recording. The internal microphone is a little colored, probably due to the excessive use of 'chrome' plating around the microphone housing, rather than a wire-open-mesh design. Sigh... Marketing dept again, no doubt...

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Seems overpriced, June 4, 2008

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Parkker Ellingham (South Dakota) - See all my reviews

I got this because I wanted a very compact recorder with high quality stereo sound. It is very compact and lightweight for sure.
The screen is very small and the characters so tiny they can be quite difficult to read. Also, the buttons are tiny too and kind of awkward to use. My friend has an Olympus LS-10 and we did simultaneous recording of a short jam session and afterwards we compared them and the Olympus won for sound quality. Of course, it's also twice the size. All in all it's an okay product if you need something really compact but if you can, wait for the price to drop considerably or shop around.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars allot of hype over nothing, June 20, 2008

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J. DiBari "Cmayhem" (Cali) - See all my reviews
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I finaly received mine after a wait of about two months. I liked the fact that it has a built in drive and does not use an SD card like most recorders do. After setting it up I noticed it froze on setting. I Called Yamaha customer support and played phone tag for two days. When I did reach an agent they knew absolutely nothing about the product. There is not even anything on there Yamaha's website regarding this. I sent it back. My advice is wait until Yamaha support is available.