When did I start with the recording pen?
I think it was 2004. At the time, a Korean TV drama was very popular, "Daejeongjajin," and the oxygen beauty Li Yingai was probably the hottest foreign star at the time. So she searched for her other works, a film called "The Spring of Death." Into my vision. There is nothing to be said about the story of the movie “The Spring has passed awayâ€. To sum up, the word “for the voice of the heroine in the movie†is, after all, an enemy that cannot compete with the heat of summer and melts like snow.â€
The "Spring Passing Out" is a delicate and quiet movie with a beautiful and delicate picture. Many pictures are recorded by the male and female protagonists in the fields, forests, and the sea. In the final scene of the film, the actor Sugao stands in a wheat field recording. The sound of wheat jointing and the sound of wind blowing over the vast field of the scene I think is really handsome, plus the sad story, can not help but silly tears, too handsome, I also want to play recording!
Many years later I realized that it wasn't the professional division of the recording engineer, but the actor's handsome look! But it should be this movie that made me enjoy recording. After playing some recording equipment, but mainly Sony's portable recording stick, a total of four, D1, D50, D100, SX1000, really own is D100, but the end of the pressure box has been a long time.
Borrowing a picture from SONY China's official website, I saw a picture on the Sony Japan official website in mid-2015. This is the picture above. I felt that I was suddenly hit. This machine is beautiful! Immediately there is the idea of ​​wanting a whole one.
With the D100, why should you consider a small recording stick? This is still related to work. Sometimes listening to a leader's speech or listening to a lecture, he always wants to record. The phone recording is obviously wrong. If you record in your seat, you often record the noise of the surrounding environment. The voice of the lecturer is almost unnoticeable;
If you record your mobile phone on the podium, you can, but there are two problems. First, teachers will like to walk around when they are lectured. It is not clear if the mobile phone is far away. Another problem is that professors or leaders give lectures and put a mobile phone to record on the podium. It feels strange and unofficial. The D100 certainly can meet the recording requirements of this scene, but the goods are too big, and it's very blatant. Putting on the podium also makes the teacher feel uncomfortable, so the miniaturized recording sticks are in non-professional user groups. I feel still very practical.
Speaking of voice recorders, I would like to say one thing. Some time ago, the second session of the World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. The day before, I saw a microblog posted by a certain domestic media. I interviewed JD CEO Liu Qiangdong. The media is considered a domestic name. The media, entering the venue to interview Mr. Liu Qiangdong should also be professional reporters, but in the photo two reporters use the mobile phone for interview recording.
I don’t know why the reporter used a mobile phone to record for whatever reason, but I feel that this is very bad. I don’t show enough respect for the interviewees. Professionals do not use professional equipment to interview people. This is not formal. I think this reporter is interviewing the country’s leaders. When people should not use mobile phones to record it? If a professional interviews someone else, I think using a voice recorder is a very necessary thing.
ICD-UX565F is a mid-range product in Sony's digital audio recorder. Among Sony's recording pens, the high-end model is a professional linear PCM digital recorder, PCM-D100/M10, ICD-SX1000/734, and ICD-UX565F in Sony. The classification is "professional digital recording stick."
In fact, ICD-UX565F also supports linear PCM recording. Personally feel the difference between ICD-UX and ICD-SX is mainly in the microphone configuration, ICD-SX is a three-way microphone (stereo + zoom), and ICD-SX only Stereo microphones, other design indicators are very similar, such as LPCM recording encoding are 44.1kHz, 16bit.
ICD-UX565F also has a sister model, ICD-UX560F, the difference is only a capacity of 8G and a 4G, there are differences in the length of life, the other places are exactly the same, in the Sony ICD-UX560F official website price is cheaper 300 , so you can choose ICD-UX560F cost-effective.
In the information printed on the back of the package, the battery life is very eye-catching, MP3 48kbps (mono): about 318 hours and 0 minutes; MP3 128kbps: about 119 hours and 0 minutes; MP3192kbps: about 79 hours and 30 minutes; LPCM 44.1kHz, 16bit: About 10 hours and 45 minutes, there is no actual verification of this life time. I have a good 10-hour battery life, and the playback time is about 23-27 hours. In addition to this, the quick charge function, official information is to be able to record for an hour in 3 minutes.
The accessories in the package, only the description file and a cloth storage cover, the Japanese version seems to have a power adapter, the State Bank omitted the power adapter.
ICD-UX565F has a typical "Sony face", Founder's shape, flat keys, symmetrical design, key layout is very early Sony MP3 look, black, silver, red, pink four colors, but I The best thing to think about silver and black is the traditional color of Sony's digital products.
The recording pen's appearance is very savory and can be regarded as the most pleasing to the eye in Sony's mini-recorder. It looks as if some early walkman music played.
The body material is plastic, but the silver coating looks very much like metal. The 360-degree shape has no dead ends and it feels very beautiful. It is not very happy that the black border of the screen is a little wider.
Side, power button, volume button, the bottom of the USB interface is a draw switch.
Ejected USB interface, charging will be much easier, and read and write files quickly.
Support Micro SD card expansion, 64GB is no problem, 128GB does not have such a large memory card to test.
On the top, an external microphone and monitor headphone connector is provided with an aluminum wire through-hole mesh with a built-in microphone.
This part of the work is very delicate and very poisonous. But the headphone jack and the external microphone jack are plastic, slightly offensive.
The key feel is more general, because the key process is relatively short, but Sony made the recording key and stop key concave, feels more comfortable, four-way control button has a blind operation contact design, convenient and fast operation, the only let What people worry about is that the screen markings on the surface of the keys are worn out by the machine for a long time.
The black part is the external speaker located at the bottom, but the volume of the ICD-UX565F is not loud, and it is best to use the headphones for monitor playback.
The screen is smaller, but for small recording pens, the information to be displayed is sufficient. The whole machine is very small and light, and the weight of the whole machine is 52g.
ICD-UX565F supports FM radio function, the frequency range of 87.50MHz - 108.00MHz, if you buy a Japanese version, you will not receive most of the FM radio stations in mainland China.
Recording interface, there are left and right channel level meter at the top. Work indicator at the top, red for recording, green for playback.
Recording function setting menu, you can select the scene, sensitivity, but also bass filter function, VOR function is also very practical, sound control automatically starts recording, when the external sound below a certain value will pause recording, in general, the function is very complete.
The playback interface has been optimized. Early Sony voice recorders such as the D50 and M10 played music without playing the next song automatically. It was inconvenient to listen to songs. Now Sony's new voice recorder also supports automatic playback. , And the selection song can also be selected according to the folder, and there is a simple search function. Clear speech is played back with the needle, which reduces the low frequency and enhances the mid-high frequency for a clear sound.
First of all, to talk about the recording experience, the conventional recording author mainly tried the 192K Mp3 format. The built-in microphone sensitivity of the ICD-UX565F is still very high. You can even use it as a low-power hearing aid when using a monitor headphone.
The quality of the test recording is still very good. The sharpness in the PCM format is great, but the ambient noise suppression is not very good. Relying on the post-processing, you can choose to open the bass filter in the recording setting menu, and the sound will have less detail. , but for non-professional applications such as meeting records, the problem is not great. The recording function of the ICD-UX565F can even challenge the higher-end SX1000. The difference between the two is not much, and the indicators, interfaces and functions are very similar.
Compared with the Sony PCM-D100 high-end recording stick model, the difference is still very obvious. First, the PCM-D100 supports a higher bit rate DSD recording format, and the sound field and positioning are better, which is more suitable for small band performances. The need for quality recording, in addition to ICD-UX565F and PCM-D100 such high-end models, microphone configuration specifications are much lower than the sensitivity is much lower, and because the microphone is completely fixed, so the poorer directivity, can be connected An external microphone enhances the recording pen. The author suggests using a lavalier microphone. When connecting a microphone with a wire and a monitor, the sound of wire rubbing may be heard in the monitor, so be sure to use a clip.
For recording file editing, the recording, erasing, protection, segmentation, and movement of the recording can be done on the ICD-UX565F, but the fade-in and fade-out effects cannot be edited, which means that simple editing is possible, and the mixing is almost exclusively based on PC software. Now.
The above figure and the 7.3mm Xperia Z5 put together, 10.5 mm thick ICD-UX565F looks not too thick, at least smaller than the ICD-SX1000 seems to be more thin, this recording pen is exquisite and compact, and the function Powerful, long life, many people may want to buy as a DAP music player, the author's advice is best not to.
The first is that the ICD-UX565F supports less audio formats than the Sony NWZ WALKM player. The official label is to support LPCM/MP3/AAC/WMA, but perhaps many people who do not listen to lossless music have little problem; but the selection The operation is very different. ICD-UX565F does not have a media library like an ordinary player. Choosing songs is a little troublesome. Although there is a simple search function, it is also very inconvenient.
The most important thing is still hearing, the playback sound of ICD-UX565F obviously weakened the bass, the high-frequency density is strengthened, the sound sounds a little thicker than the conventional player; of course, if you are better technology you can use EQ function Addition and subtraction, but the sound field of the ICD-UX565F is relatively small, and the human voice is very close to the ear. This is the biggest difference from the ordinary music player. When it comes to the tracks of larger scenes, the ICD-UX565F sounds a bit awkward. Flexibility and limitations, the sound field is not broad enough. The output sound details and dynamics are not included in the NWZ-A15 music player.
For regular users such as students, business people, lawyers, etc., this recording pen is still very good. Field reporters and Internet radio podcasts are not bad for this practical device. Overall, the recording effect of ICD-UX565F surpasses me. The expectation, but professional vocal recording equipment is obviously not enough, but adding an external microphone can improve its recording quality. As a pure music player, it is recommended that you carefully consider this use.