LS-3 - Latest PCM Music Recorder From Olympus Australia

With the discontinue of the LS-10 and LS-11 digital PCM music recorders earlier in 2011 there was an obvious gap in the Olympus Australia digital recorder range for music lovers.

That gap has now been fully filled by the awesome new Olympus LS-3 digital PCM music recorder. Just released into Australia the LS-3 comes with a couple of very cool new features.

First of which is the Tresmic microphone system. Secreted below the mic grills of the LS-3 are three seperate mics. The center mic is omnidirectional which enhances lower frequencies. Then two mics sits either side of the center mic which are high-performance directional mics. The center mic can be turned on or off, adjusting the frequency response.

The second very neat feature is a pre-record function. This is very clever, how many times have you gone to record something and not quite hit the record button in time? With pre-record on the LS-3 keeps a two second buffer of audio, as soon as you hit record the previous two seconds are then added to the recording making sure you never miss that moment again.

Complete with 4Gb of on board memory and a microSD expansion slot the LS-3 is available from Dictate Australia and has an RRP of $299 incl. GST

Express Scribe Now .ds2 Compatible

As of version 5.30 Express Scribe (Windows) can now load and play DSS Pro audio files, better known as .ds2 files, from both Olympus and Philips recorders.

A point of great angst for nearly two years now with the fleet of transcriptionists worldwide who dedicate their lives to audio typing using Express Scribe, the handy free software from NCH that will play just about every audio format known to man has finally overcome its greatest hurdle, the .ds2 file.

Prior to this update typists who received a .ds2 audio file had a few options:

• Ask the sender to convert to .dss or other compatible format
• Upgrade their own transcription software to a paid Olympus kit
• Buy software to convert the audio for them

So what are you waiting for, head over to http://www.nch.com.au/scribe and get the latest version and become .ds2 compatible. (Not yet Mac, just the Windows people).