Gear Review - Roland R-07 Portable Recorder

[@phillean]

Very useful , thanks.

[@otrikile]

Dude, the light lamp up there in your room disturbs pretty much in watching the video, so try to turn it off and turn on some better positioned light lamp from your side or front ...

[@TheBroadcastStudio365]

😂😂

[@JCNOAOU]

Can Bluetooth headphones be connected to this recorder? Thanks 4 your reply in advance

[@tyronerivera915]

Can you hook it up to a mixer ? Can you record from a mixer to the RO -7 ??

[@DeepRelaxation365Calm]

A fantastic review, it seems to be a great piece of equipment

[@skyriversound8964]

It really is great! Sorry it took me a while to reply, KZbin had my comment filters all funny.

[@niopanificadora]

Cómo descargar archivos con USB?

[@5882300rickroll]

Thanks for your honest review on this recorder. Do you know if it is possible to hear audio on your phone with the App? I can't seem to figure that one out. not a dealbreaker but it would be a nice feature for sure. Looks like the app is really only for triggering the recording, and adding markers.

[@skyriversound8964]

Thanks for your question! As far as I can tell the Bluetooth in the R-07 will connect either to the app or to a Bluetooth headset but no audio is sent through to the phone and you can’t connect both a phone and wireless headphones at the same time. The cleanest audio path would be to monitor connected straight to the headphone out with a cable as wireless connections would all involve lossy compression like an mp3.

[@5882300rickroll]

​@@skyriversound8964 That makes sense. Thanks for the quick response!

[@spamcan2551]

Great, honest review. One point..... next time use the R07 with lav mike for your audio and lose the desk mike and puff shield. Audio would have been much better and you wouldn't have had to remind yourself to keep your face to the side....(looked like you were scared of showing your face..... just sayin'! Hey, but it's the information that counts!

[@suneefilm]

thanks for your video, is it possbile to use headphone wirelessly and iphone app at the same time?

[@skyriversound8964]

Thanks for your question! I don’t believe you can have more than one Bluetooth device connected at a time, that may change with a firmware update but last I heard it is one or the other.

[@suneefilm]

@@skyriversound8964 HI Mate, I have purchsed r-07, campare it with H4n, the r07 builtin mic record less dynamic of sound wave than zoom H4n, which feel more vivid, more information. I finished project reording wind band, the drums, trumpet sound very flat in r07. the builtin mic is realtively smaller than zoom h4n, that's probably why. I wish zoom h1n have blue tooth connection, and peak light signal. however, I like the r-07 cute little design.

[@skyriversound8964]

Thanks for the observations and comparison, I haven’t tried the H4n but I really like my H8. The big strength of the R-07 for me is that I can easily take it places that would be less practical for my other recorders. I usually run it with external mics and it does quite well. Use whatever works for you, the gear doesn’t make as much of a difference as recording technique does.

[@SJ-xn7qw]

Have you tried to power it by power bank?

[@skyriversound8964]

Sorry for the late reply, but yes! It works fantastically with any USB power supply. Really big plus for longer trips in the field.

[@icecorebaby]

I tried updating to the latest firmware. Having issues.

[@skyriversound8964]

Hmmm... I’ve only done firmware once with this. It was counter-intuitive for me, but I did get it working. When was the latest firmware update released?

[@ebbyglun3792]

Can you send the files via Bluetooth to your Computer?

[@skyriversound8964]

I don’t believe so. I haven’t tried connecting Bluetooth with anything other than my phone, and I didn’t read anything about Bluetooth file transfer in the manual. Maybe they’ll include this in an update.

[@mr.h.4501]

I have the Olympus LS100, Sony PCM D100, and the Sony PCM-M10. I'm always looking for portable recorders with the lowest noise floor from it's pre-amps. I like to record natural nature ambient sounds usually at low volumes which requires me to raise the amps to capture the sounds and the hissing sounds from the recorder kills recording. I'm considering the Roland R07. I like it's compactness, and love the Bluetooth monitoring which allows me to be further away from the recorder and not introduce sounds from me when monitoring. I also like how the R07 I can do dual recordings, incase the main recorder gets clipped. I have a couple of recordings on an alt channel I have with some of the recordings: kzbin.infovideos

[@skyriversound8964]

This is awesome! I didn't know I could set up dual recordings in case one clipped. I'll have to try that out because sometimes I'll start recording and forget that I was recording quiet ambiences the day before and then BAM!

[@ARCSYS4049]

DJI mic is what you really want

[@СемёнСурин-ф1э]

Хорошая вещь

[@skyriversound8964]

Спасибо!