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.

Superb, Affordable Olympus LS-3 Discontinued In Australia - Expected To Be Replaced By LS-12 and LS-14

The Olympus LS-3 digital linear PCM voice and music recorder was discontinued this week in Australia. In a surprise move Olympus withdrew the model taking this Olympus Pro reseller quite by surprise.

We expect the LS-3 to be replaced in early 2013 by either one or both of the two new PCM music recorders launched last month in the US called the LS-12 and LS-14. 

The Olympus LS-12 (2Gb) and Olympus LS-14 (4Gb) certainly look the part with the trend in 'outing' the mics continuing with these new models. Capable of coping with upto 130 dB of noise thrown at it and packed with musician goodies like a metronome, chromatic tuner and playback speed control that alone should make these sought after. That and there very low US pricing (US$149 for the LS-12 and US$199 for the LS-14) we hope to see that emulated here in Australia. 

Expected to arrive in Australia in early 2013.

Click here for our main blog with more details on the Olympus LS-12 and LS-14 along with an intro video to these two new linear PCM music recorders.