New Olympus LS-12 and LS-14 Hit Australia - Musicians Can't Contain Their Excitement

Finally the long awaited replacements for the superb LS-3, which was discontinued down under later last year (2012), have arrived. Well nearly, the Olympus LS-14 is available in Australia now (April 2013), the cheaper LS-12 is expected next month.

Oh yeah and that bit in the title "Musicians Can't Contain Their Excitement", I made that up, I am assuming that they are as excited as I am. Why am I excited? The price, the LS-12 will retail for AU$199 and the LS-14 for AU$249. That is seriously cheap for studio quality digital PCM music recorders.

The LS-3 was good, the LS-12 and LS-14 are a step up again. Their features include:

• Mac & Windows compatible, always a given for Olympus
• Pre-record - it records before you hit the record button so never miss a cue
• Uncompress PCM WAV recording, and of course MP3 recording if you need it
• Digital metroname
• LS-12 has 2Gb built-in, the LS-14 has 4Gb - both expandable via SD card
• Over dubbing (LS-14 only)
• Tresmic Mics (LS-14 only)
• Chromatic Tuner
• Can be attached to a music stand

That is a long list of top quality music recording goodness, belt out your tunes and the LS-12 and LS-14 won't miss a beat, no clipping with these mics.