Speaker 1: Sony ICD-PX370 voice recorder yeah I got one of these because you know it's easier than using a phone to do it especially when you can do one touch stuff or zero touch stuff which is kind nice it does have a USB right there which does recognize as a normal drive in your computer no special drivers necessary and the batteries go right there two triple A's and it is thankfully tethered which means you can't lose it that's nice You have the hold section, the power section, you have a little rocker for the volume here. Your micro SD, if I can get it open, goes right in there. There it is. Do you need it? Probably not. So when it's on hold, what that means is that, and this is while it's on, I'll turn it on in a second, what that means is that while it's recording, if you happen to mash a button, it won't do anything. That's why, it means hold and stay recording so that you don't accidentally stop recording or anything like that if you accidentally press a button. it on, just hold it down for a second. That's it. Is it a backlit display? No. It has one LED. That's it. Some may consider that a little bit of a deal breaker with this, but that is what allows this to have incredibly long battery life. So, let's just go around and see what we got here. Stop, record, pause, back home, time mark, option, time mark, that's, this is a weird function. I know it's a standard thing with voice recorders. I still find it weird to this day in your options and that's it. There's no other buttons on this. So let's go to the options first. If I can and get the error options, get that in view. Up and down, that's how you go through here. So I'll just get to the main features of what most people would use this for just to get yourself up and running. That's what happens from options. so you have this stuff but this isn't anything to do with setup so stop and we'll go to hit this one, the back home key and hit it again okay so I hit that twice settings right there I pressed right to go there common settings So, the first one, the LED, all that does is that it means whether this is on or off when recording. That's all that does. So I have mine set to on. So, okay, back. There we go. Beep. That's what you're hearing right now. Either the beep is on or off. I have it set to off. Now no beep. Now I do have a beep. Your system language, those are the three you have to choose from. Date and time. Bear in mind this thing doesn't synchronize with anything, so you do have to set the correct date and time, and it does affect the file name, which I'll get to in a second. That's how you set the date and time. Oh, I should note that you can change the format to year, month, day, month, day, year or day, month, year. That is nice. And you can change it to 12 or 24 hour, also nice. I have the auto power off on this one set to 10 minutes. I think it comes by default to do that so what I could do is just leave it when not recording and then it will automatically shut off itself. That's good which means it will not shut itself off automatically when recording unless the batteries are about to die on it and it will give you a warning for that. Reset format this is actually good because this is where you format your SD card So if you put in a brand new 32GB SD card, that is where you format it. If you want to format the whole thing, the internal memory, you would do it from here. Reset all settings. I wouldn't touch that unless you absolutely have to do it for some reason because then you have to reset the date again. Back. Available recording time. This is where things get a little interesting. I have this set on the highest possible recording quality. The built-in memory, which means let's just say you have no memory card, you get 40 hours at top quality. An SD card, 368, but you can get more out of it. Let me see if I can go back under recording settings. So if I set this, I think it's record mode, yeah. Under record mode, if I set this just to the lowest quality, which is mono, 48 kilobit a second. All right, let's do that now. Let's go to common settings. Was it here? Yeah. Now, watch. now I have in the built-in memory 162 hours and 1473 hours on the SD card so but even if you have no and it shows you the quality right here so if you want to maximize I want the most recording time just set it to mono 48 which still sounds fairly decent and you get 162 or hours out of the internal and almost 1,500 hours out of the SD. That's good. Let's go back and set that back to highest quality. See if there's anything under common I want to show here. All I've got here is just system information. I looked up to see if there was another firmware version. No, it's still at version 1, so that's fine. Let's see if there's anything under playback setting. Nope, not really. I'm not going to cover everything to do with this, like I said. I'm just going to cover enough to get you up and running here. You do have a headphone out jack and a microphone jack here. Yeah, it's true. Now under recorded files, this is where I can go to folders and I can choose my built-in memory which I have nothing right now or the SD where I do have recordings here and you'll see notice that the file names are directly affected by the date it's essentially the date The time I think that's what it is. Yeah, so that one would be six seven twenty three at 2255 so That's a reason to have The date correct on this thing. Oh Yeah, let me go back to the settings here I I had to hunt around a little bit to find this, but under the recording settings, this is where you can choose whether to save to internal memory by default or the SD card. So that's recording folder and that's where you select it right here. And also that is where you can create a folder and you choose where, like say built-in memory. Unfortunately I could not find a way to do a custom folder in this thing. You can name it any one of these, or just folder or radio. If you already have one called folder, then what will occur is that it will call the default one back here yet the default is folder 0 1 if you create another one it will call it folder 0 2 or whatever that other name was okay from here if I hit stop yeah if I go stop then it goes back to the main screen here. I can go back and forth between 1, 2, 3 but if you notice I had more than three recordings here. It's only going to from what I can tell, it only shows a handful of the latest recordings if I want to see all of them, that is when I go to recorded files to the folder, to the SD to here and then I see them all and Then what I can do is just you know pick one randomly, and then I can start to play I'll stop there, and this is where I can adjust the volume you can get it pretty loud actually Okay, that was way too loud. Sorry about that Put it back down to 10 where I had it, and stop, okay. Now where I stopped, if I want to rewind, just like that. If I want to fast forward, well that's a little interesting because if I hit, if it's at the beginning and I hit right, you know, fast forward, it goes to the next file. If I want to fast forward, I have to play, okay yeah, stop, so I have to press and hold and then let go where I want to. And I guess the last thing I can say about this for now, let me rewind that back, there we go, is the whole T mark thing. So if I play, and I'll just add a T mark, see that? I added a little mark there, and then I'll add another mark right here. Now I've got two. What is the point of these T marks? They're kind of bookmarks, kind of not. Because what I can do with that from option... I think it's from option... Divide. What I can do from here, this is where the divide function comes in. I have two marks, I'm on the file right now, if I go to option, and I go to divide, what that will do is split the audio into separate files per the marks that you set. So that's what Tmark does. And I'm trying to remember where it was that you can remove all those Tmarks. You can do it. Okay, I found it. Alright, option... I think I found it anyway. There it is. Delete track marks. I had to hang there for a second longer. Delete track marks. Do it. All track marks. Yes. Good. That doesn't mean the file was deleted. Okay, a little bit of a learning curve with this thing, but you get to record a monster amount of audio. You can plug headphones into it, you can connect a microphone to it, it is easy enough to transfer the mp3, it's always mp3, you can transfer the mp3 files over to your computer. Easy enough to do and And light as a feather. You got the little, where is it, oh yeah, there it is. You can put a little lanyard on it if you want to. Also nice. Certainly loud enough. And yeah, it will, shows the battery life right there by the way. So if you need to, well you don't need to, it will warn you if the battery's getting low. leaving the auto shutoff enabled because yeah otherwise could result in a bad situation with the batteries leaking but that shouldn't be you shouldn't have to do that because this thing more or less operates like a almost like a Casio watch does very basic display very basic functionality it's cool I'm glad I have it