Philips Voice Tracer Audio Recorder DVT4110/00 Digital Notes Three Fidelity Microphone Rechargeable Battery Smartphone App

OVERVIEW - I have had my DVT4110 for nearly three years. In that time it has proved an excellent all-rounder with proven reliability. Replacement cable - ask for [ USB type C data & power ] BUILD QUALITY - The shell is lightweight aluminium with smooth round edges all around the device. All buttons still feel firm and tight. The slider ON / OFF / HOLD switch, and USB cover are rubber and show no signs of wear. MICROPHONES - There are three. Two for stereo and one in the middle for NOTES mode. The covering is silver plastic and mine have chipped after dropping the DVT4110 several times (and worked perfectly afterwards). The quality of the microphones is good enough for podcasts or voiceovers and they have a low noise floor. DISPLAY - The screen is coloured and very large. File information uses a very clear font. The recording level meter is two white bars (for left and right sounds). The colours are white / brown / red. For good recording levels it best to prevent he bars from going into orange, and definitely not red. On playback a blue waveform is displayed. This is a visual representation of the sound recorded in any particular file. In a good recording the waveform should look like Christmas tree laid on its side, with the tips of the wave just touching the edge of the underlying blue bar. If it's not, and the waves are one continual block all the way along - then the recording level for that file was too high and overloaded the recording. RECORDING LEVELS - There are five to choose from (there is no manual recording level) 1) VERY LOW 2) LOW 3) MEDIUM 4) HIGH 5) VERY HIGH. RECORDING "SCENES" - They are INTERVIEW - LECTURE - MEETING - MUSIC - NOTE - SPEECH RECOGNITION - CUSTOM. Each "SCENE" uses different settings for different enviroments. They are in MP3 format and utilise the "Genre" column in windows. Using this you can group these into each different genres and further sort them. Very handy if you have 400 files to sort through. FILE TRANSFER - The DVT4110 supports windows "drag and drop". When plugged in "This PC" window will assign the DVT4110 a drive letter to its internal memory and any micro sd card in the device. RECORDING - Threre is a red button. Before recording you must prepare the DVT4110 by pressing the black + button. If you don't do this then your new recording will be "APPENDED" (added to) the last recording you made. So, new recording goes like this - press the black button under the + sign on the screen, then press the red record button. BATTERY (built in) - Showing no signs of diminishing output. Mine still runs continuously for 2 hours with 60% still available. If extra power is needed then I use an external power bank. I have noted that if the DVT4110 battery is completly flat then it will consume about 68% of a fully charged power bank. This brings the DVT4110 to full capacity. I hope you find this of use.

Does what it says on the tin, and more. I have done 9 interviews so far and the transcription quality has been superb. Very easy to use and transfer the audio files - I even deleted my files by mistake and managed to recover them by plugging in the device and searching for *.*.mp3, and they all reappeared and I promptly shifted them to my online folder!!!

Wife uses it to record committee meetings and for playback when typing up the minutes of the meetings. Does exactly what is needed only drawback is size of the buttons which are on the small side.

I like this product and it is very practical and easy to operate. Light weight and professional.

the instructions are useless very hard to use as you have to look at youtube to make some sort of idea on how to use not for the faint hart would only recommend if your a geek pity that Philips asked a geek to invent worth the money if i manage to find out how to work

Good basic audio recorder, however I can't seem to find a micro sd card that machine accepts! which is why I only gave it 3 stars. If anyone can help find a micro sd that works let me know!

I have been looking for a couple of years for a recorder that could "timer record on it's line-in socket with voice activation" and finally, this device does that. You can set a start date, start time in Hrs & Mins and a duration of 15 / 30 / 60 / 120 mins. or unlimited time. At the voice activation page you are able to set a recording level threshold. It's very easy to use with an intuitive user interface. It feels lightweight and a tiny bit plasticy but very tough plastic body nonetheless. Battery life so far seems very good.

Quite disappointing really. My old Olympus recorder finally broke after 10 years so I replaced it with this one. I expected it to be top quality, robust and easy to use. It doesn't feel like the quality I was expecting for the price, it feels like it should be about 30% of the price. The ease of use is not that great either. No proper manual and it is not obvious what all the buttons do without some experimentation. the app was a bit crap and I had to set my iphone to a reversionary mode to get it to connect. This needs mentioning that newer iphones wont allow it to connect without this. Sound quality pick up on the microphones is not great even when I am right next to it, so I cant image this is going to be good for people who use for capturing lectures. Finally I also thought it came with the DVT2810 transcription software which is one of the reason i bought it and how I thought it justified the price. I logged on to the website to get the software and it allowed me to download it, but then asked for a software serial number which I did not get. Apparently you don't get the software free and you have to pay another £44.00 which added to the price of the unit would make this close to £150 . ... All in all not very good value for money and very disappointing overall.

I wanted a simple voice recorder and in the past wasted a lot of time fiddling around with the Philips voice recorder that had too many options and too many ways to make it simply record and playback speech. The Philips DBT 4110 Digital Voice Tracer looked like a superb option. I bought it and thought it looked like something that simplified the process. I've been using computers for 40 odd years, but I still can't work how to record a new recording on this beast. Too many options. It's just ridiculous. Why can't they just stop obfuscating a simple process with multiple options that are required when you simply have a voice recorder in your hand and you are really busy and trying to get on with things?

Excelente calidad de sonido una vez configurada al gusto. Para apreciar la calidad de la grabación preferible el uso de auriculres, el áltavoz es para lo que es... reviar que se ha grabado y ya está. Muy ligera y multitud de configuraciones tanto en calidad de grabación como sensibilidad de los micrófonos. SONIDO NÍITIDO

El plástico se siente corriente, es hecha en Korea nunca encontré que advirtiera la capacidad máxima que soporta para tarjetas Micro SD, le puse una de 128GB nueva y no la reconocía, probé con otra tarjeta de 128 que estaba funcionando y tampoco, le puse una de 32 GB y si la reconoció, Descargué el manual Y NUNCA MENCIONA LA CAPACIDAD de la tarjeta que debe usar, compré inútilmente una Micro SD de 128GB, desconozco si funciona una de 64GB. LA GRABACIÓN es MALA, los micrófonos son sensibles pero NO les encuentro cómo subir el volumen de grabación, aparte de que EL PLÁSTICO CORRIENTE deja pasar MUCHOS RUIDOS, se graba claramente cuando aprietas una tecla o botón o si la mueves sale el sonido de los "plastiquitos" de adentro. La batería viene precargada pero dice que NUNCA la debes dejar sin carga total porque se daña, aunque no la uses siempre dejarle carga. La batería ES INTERNA el tamaño NO ES DISCRETO como para usarla en el bolsillo de la camisa, es vistosa Para que funcione con el teléfono debes conectarla con el HotSpot no con el puro WI-FI, pero NO DICE si eso consume tus datos o por qué requiere que esté conectada en internet. NO he podido usarla para dictarle y que en la PC se convierta en notas escritas, NO está claro en dónde está EL NÚMERO DE SERIE QUE PIDE para bajar ese software, dice que está en el manual de inicio rápido pero ahí NO SE ENCUENTRA, ya les escribí pero no han dado respuesta. Tiene varios escenarios pero confunden ya que tampoco el "manual" te dice que pasa en cada escenario o sus características. Lo único que trae extra es un cable corto de USB a USB C. La pantalla NO ES TOUCH pero tiene buena definición. En la parte posterior, trae un hoyo con rosca para fijarla a un aditamento. VENTAJA los archivos los envías directamente a tu celular.

Ho scelto questo recorder (per registrazioni musicali e video) in mezzo a tanti perchè cercavo qualità wave 24bit, microfoni mediamente grandi, innesto treppiede e batteria integrata per evitare le pile, con un budget sui 100 euro. Ho fatto diversi test registrando voce, ambiente e strumenti musicali: la qualità generale a 24bit è buona in particolare su voce e ambiente, ma per registrazioni musicali a mio parere non è molto adatto (rumore di fondo avvertibile anche a sensibilità minima e suono meno naturale rispetto a prodotti specifici per musica), sulle medie/alte frequenze sembra tarato appositamente su voce e conversazioni. Manca sicuramente un controllo per impostare il volume del microfono con precisione sia prima che durante il recording, si regola solo l'ascolto (e la "sensibilità", ma prima di registrare). In campo musica/video è indispensabile poterlo regolare sempre, spero sia risolvibile con il firmware. La funzione limiter aiuta ad evitare il clipping, ma introduce più rumore di fondo. I punti di forza sono tanti: il buon design, la connettività wireless, lo schermo grande a colori, la batteria e la memoria interna (i rivali difficilmente hanno memoria e usano sempre pile), il menu e il grande led di stato. I difetti a mio avviso sono: l'impossibilità di tarare con precisione il volume di registrazione, un po' lento nei salvataggi, un EQ poco flat, l'assenza di controlli dedicati per il volume e parti metalliche poco rifinite. A livello di materiali è ottimo nelle plastiche, ma il rivestimento della parte alta in metallo zincato è grezzo al tatto e delicato, nel mio caso era già opacizzato appena arrivato. Conclusioni: con la batteria integrata e la memoria 8GB a questo prezzo è un modello interessante nel mondo dei recorder professionali, ma rimane più indicato per registrazioni di voce e interviste. Da perfezionare, mancano funzioni essenziali per chi lo usa in musica e video... lo ricomprerei solo se avesse una regolazione del volume di registrazione sempre attiva e una taratura più flat dei microfoni.

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