Olympus DS-30 Digital Voice Recorder

This recorder is awesome. Easy to use, lightweight, excellent sound quality, comfortable for transcribing. I also love that I can archive all my recording on my computer. The possibilities are endless. Great, great buy.

The product is great and does everything you would want it to with regard to recording with great quality. Bought the extra microphone but haven't had to use it the attached mic is great.

That said, if you are using for podcasts or want mp3 format you'll need to use something like audacity and lame software to edit from Windows format to mp3.

One thing I would suggest if you use with the phone is the additional earpiece mic Olympus TP 7 it's the best addition.

A great product, much improved over the one I had before in that it has a lot more storage, more folders. My only reservation is that the batteries run down faster.

I was a novice to the digital voice recorder industry when I bought my DS30. I thought it would be a good replacement for my Dictaphone, however, nothing in the product description warned me that common features found on tape recorders, like fast forward, rewind and the ability to record over a section are considered "advanced" and "advanced professional" features. For those entering the digital voice recording arena beware, if the product description does not say the voice recorder has "advanced" features like rewind, fast forward, overwrite and/or insert, it doesn't.

Olympus DS-30 Digital Voice Recorder

The sound quality is excellent and the price is wright. This voice recorder is great!