Tascam DR-60DMKII – Portable linear PCM Stereo Recorder for DSLR

Excellent piece of equipment. I was worried about buying something a little more complex than I was used to. I was torn between this and something simpler like a Zoom handheld recorder. I'm very happy I chose this instead. Two XLR cables with phantom power allow you to connect microphones easily and quickly to either record two tracks or one stereo track. There's a 3.5mm jack that allows you to add two more lines (channel 3 & 4 for lapel mics or wireless mics). The dials on the front allow you to control the gain very easily and there's a clear monitor that tells you the DB. On the right hand side there's a jack for headphones for direct monitoring and lines for Camera in and Camera out (if you want to make a scratch tape I believe but I don't do this and my camera doesn't have a microphone jack so I can't comment on the success of that). I use this to record audio separately and then synchronise it with the video - the SD card is on the side and is easy to take out and insert into the PC or you can connect the two via USB. Some people have criticised this for not being sturdy. I would disagree. It is a solid piece of equipment, well put together. Would it survive being dropped from a height? Probably not, but I doubt many field recorders would. This is sturdy, well designed and easy to use. It produces very high quality, broadcast-quality audio, for amateurs and professionals alike. The only flaw is the recorder eats batteries amazingly quickly. If you get this, I would recommend also buying a ANKER powerbank or something similar. The DR60 will run for less than an hour on regular rechargeable batteries - powered by a powerbank it will run for almost a working day. You can get an AC adaptor so you can plug it in the mains, but that obviously reduces the portability of the DR. Overall, it might seem a little expensive but it is well worth it. If you are interested in recording audio for video, or recording interviews this is a must-have especially for amateurs starting out.

This field sound recorder is getting on a bit now, with several new models, but it remains an excellent sound recorder and I can honestly say that I simply love this thing. Sound quality in terms of recording is excellent, with two XLR inputs and a 3.5 inch jack input and an output to your camera too. It is fairly light, but the build quality is good, with input controls for up to three mic, assuming you use all inputs available. It has phantom power, which can be turned on or off, with a failsafe check as to whether you need power for each of the mics you use, so if you aren't using condenser mics, or otherwise powered mics, you can turn it off. All mics are different, so the controls prove a wide range for gain and you can get really clean sounding recordings; I use a range of sound recorders for film making, all of which have their pros and cons, but I can't think of anything that this sound recorder does not do well or superbly - the 3.5 inch jack, possibly is not the best, but that is about it. As it stands, this is extremely good value for what it does.

This is an incredible bit of kit given the price. The functions of this tascam unit are very indepth, there are loads of youtube videos about this unit and there are many places you can do some research. I did the same but basically you can order this with confidence. I guess one of the best features I would use is the safety track, you can set it up to record a track and another 6db lower, so if your main track is over high and distorting the secondary track will be fine, you can change the settings of this to be whatever you want. As many people have found and commented on line when you adjust the levels it is digitally stepped, but I think it very rare this would ever be a problem, You can only detect this when recording a constant tone and turn the dial, the sound you hear back is stepped. But as I say in reality you would never capture this for an actual recording.. The unit will quite happily mount on a tripod with an SLR or other camera on top, I dont think many people would use it like this so much, it is possible to get very cheap plates for the tripod with 2 mounting positions on and mount the tascam on its own next to a camera. I cant comment on battery use as I haven't used it for that long, but again portable power batteries are very cheap and many users velcro one on the back of the tascam, if you are going to do this I recommend mushroom tape, its stronger than velcro. Out the box I did find it a bit complex, might just be me, but I couldn't get the headphones to work, so for any newbies like me, you have to go into the menu and turn monitor on, you can then hear the inputs through headphones whether recording or not. I think once you get to grips with it, it will be easy for you to set up, maybe a crib sheet would be good, depending how complex your setup. Some people feed the output straight into a camera and in that way you dont need to mess about in post with syncing etc, but having done it a few times myself, its not a problem. All in all there is nothing I can say negatively about this unit, its unbelievable for the price and very professional the way it handles SD cards, I had it lock up on one but you normally format a card with the unit your using which is always good practise and I hadn't.

When it comes to budget-friendly pre-amps and field recorders there are two names that tend to dominate the conversation - ZOOM and Tascam. Having used ZOOM field recorders for several years while working in radio production it should have been my first choice when it came to freelance work and personal usage, but I was never happy with the file system used by ZOOMs. So I decided to give Tascam a chance and bought a DR-60D Mk II in March of 2018. Since then it has proven to be an absolute workhorse for fieldwork. It's been dropped (more than once - I do not recommend it), suffered through blizzards, storms and blazing hot weather, and in general been so much of a reliable bit of kit that I went and bought a DR-70D as well! I've heard some people complain about it feeling plasticky and lacking in sturdiness, which are fair points but if you want something that's basically a brick with XLR and TRS inputs then expect to pay a hell of a lot more. Now there may be some complaints about audio quality but I can honestly say that most of that will be equipment-based. Like most recording devices it will pick up what you feed into it, so if your mics or cables aren't connected properly or something has a fault then it will show up on your recordings. Unfortunately for me, I worked in 2nd-line tech support for many years in a previous life so I'm a little bit OCD when it comes to fault checking and in five years of usage there have only been a handful of occasions where I couldn't definitely isolate an audio problem - and n each of those occasions the DR60-D Mk II worked perfectly fine with alternative microphones, cables and cameras. Controls on the DR60-D Mk II are surprisingly easy to grasp and it doesn't have the annoying file system of the ZOOMs. I have to admit I prefer the smooth volume and gain control offered by the knobs on the DR60-D Mk II to the stepped approach of the DR-70D. One of the biggest plus point for the DR60-D Mk II is the fact that you can run it and any attached XLR mics with phantom power from a battery bank. It also serves as a rather good pre-amp for video production, although connecting it so that your audio feeds directly into the camera can be a little fiddly. Overall I'd say that the Tascam DR60-D Mk II is a great field recorder and pre-amp and it easy holds up well against its nearest competitors.

I bought this unit after my trusty Zoom H4n finally broke after being dropped down some stairs. The description on Amazon mentions built-in stereo mics, but the DR-60 does NOT have built-in mics! Amazon have posted details of the DR-40 in the details for the DR-60 D - Amazon, PLEASE TAKE NOTE !!!! I have given. Low rating because I am unable to use this unit as I do not have any external mics. This is probably an unfair rating, but I cannot know. However, the unit looks reasonably well made, and I had a look through the menu system which looks easy to understand. Please do not base your decision on my review, unless you are expecting the DR-60D to have built-in mics, which IT DOES NOT HAVE.

Tascam DR-60D Mk2 - simple to use . Menu is very straightforward. It takes SD cards - 6 minutes of audio at 16bit mono - 48k sample produced a 70MB file. You can read the blurb on the Tascam website but it can take 2 XLR mic inputs and also has a 3.5mm stereo jack socket input. You can have phantom power on the xlr inputs . It takes AA batteries but you can use USB cable ( it will prompt you to select the USB as a storage device or a power supply when you attach the cable ) Shooting Video , the DSLR built in Audio wasn't great , using a mic straight into the DSLR wasn't great either. I got much better results by connecting XLR Mic to DR60Mk2 XLR Input and then connecting a 3.5mm jack to jack cable from DR60MK2 "camera out" socket to the DSLR mic in socket. Depending on the editing application you will use , you can sync the DR60DMK2 files with the DSLR audio track Im not a sound engineer , it will doubtless do 1001 other things that I don't understand or would try to use but it will record good quality audio files for me with little effort.

I bought this unit at the start of the year, and have since that time been playing with every setting imaginable, but am unable to record any sound. I can however record different levels of noise - just no signal. Either the unit I have is faulty, or there's something I'm not seeing in either the manual or on the controls. In any case, this unit has never seen real use, and never will

Ok ish , my major beef with this recorder is the gain pots , they don’t take the incoming signal down to zero. With the pots all the way down you still have signal coming in , It did rescue me once once in an interview situation, I stuck it on the on the stage with a mic plugged into it and hit record , it got me out of a jam , battery life sucks , you have to use some kind of external usb pack , Cheap and cheerful, doesn’t feel professional

Der Tascam DR-60DMK2 tut genau das wofür ich ihn gekauft habe: Er erlaubt mir nicht nur mit verschiedensten Mikros in sehr guter Qualität verlustfrei aufzunehmen, er schleift auf Wunsch das Tonsignal auch zu meiner DSLR (bzw. jeder Kamera mit Mikrofoneingang) durch. In vielen Fällen reicht (mir) die Qualität des durchgeschleiften Tons schon. Wenn man den Ton stärker bearbeiten und nicht auf die durch die Kamera komprimierte Tonspur des Videos zurückgreifen möchte, kann man ohne Probleme mit den unkomprimierten Aufnahmen des Rekorders arbeiten. Der Rekorder bietet mit der Slate Funktion eine sehr clevere Möglichkeit der Tonsynchronisation. Außerdem bietet er (neben vielen anderen Features) 48 V Phantomspeisung für die beiden XLR Eingänge (Kanal 1 und 2), einen Trittschall bzw. Hochpassfilter (verschiedene Frequenzen einstellbar), einen Limiter (der das "Dual Recording" mit verschiedenen Lautstärken fast schon unnötig macht). Die Möglichkeit Equalizer Einstellungen fürs Abhören bzw. nachträgliche Anhören der Aufnahme zu machen habe ich noch nicht verwendet, hat aber sicherlich einen gewissen Mehrwert für manche. Ich betreibe den Rekorder via ein per USB angeschlossenes Battery-Pack - da kann ich ohne Probleme bis zu 12 Stunden am Stück mit arbeiten - oder mit einem einfachen USB Netzadapter. Sehr cool! Alles in allem, halte ich den DR-60DMKII für ein "rundum sorglos Paket" speziell für Low Budget Filmer. Die Tonqualität ist absolut mehr als in Ordnung und der Preis (trotz des - zugegebenermaßen - sich sehr billig anfühlenden Plastik-Gehäuses, das ich wirklich als den einzigen Schwachpunkt des Geräts ansehe) erstaunlich günstig.

軽量コンパクトなのでDSLRとの組合せでは気軽に運用できます。 音質はキャノン端子からの運用であればクセの無い素直な音が記録できます。 接続するマイクの音質による部分がかなり大きくなります。 (1〜2万円のマイクでは中級レベルの音しか録音できないです) 音質重視なら5万円以上のクラスのマイクを付けることをお薦めします。 単三電池以外にもUSBから外部電源を補助的に利用できるのも便利な点です。 難点はUIがわかり難いので説明書が無いと直感的に操作ができません。 この辺は慣れが必要かと思われますが、価格が安く安定感も有るので満点評価とします。

Het enige wat niet professioneel aan deze recorder is, is de behuizing. Die is namelijk van plastic en de voeding is met AA batterijen. Maar verder zit er veel meer op dan je ooit nodig zult hebben. Perfect voor bij een Sony systeemcamera want met de monitormix kun je precies bepalen wat je naar de camera stuurt en wat de DR60 zelf opneemt. Interface en schermpje ook helemaal in orde. Werkt superfijn met Rode Go en een paar condensatormicrofoons via XLR. Sluit 'm aan op een powerbankje en hij doet het dagenlang. 4 kanaals audio bij je video voor een speels prijsje. Toppertje!

A la hora de adquirir mi primer equipo de audio "profesional" (poned todas las comillas que considereis) me encontraba con dudas entre adquirir la Tascam DR 60 y la Zoom CH4. A continuación, enumero las ventajas que, para mi, tenían cada una sobre la otra: TASCAM - Previos de mejor calidad - Posibilidad de colocarla sobre un trípode o rig, y sobre esta la cámara - Posibilidad de engancharle una correa - Sistema "push" en las entradas XLR ZOOM - microfonía stereo integrada - Menor tamaño POR QUÉ ESCOGÍ TASCAM Dejando aparte el tema de los previos (que es discutible, y cuya diferencia seguramente será mínima), en mi caso, que en muchas ocasiones tengo que llevar solo el audio y el vídeo, me parecía importante poder acoplar en un solo cuerpo la cámara y la grabadora, formando un combo en el que, sobre la grabadora acoplo la cámara, y sobre la cámara engancho un Rode NTG2. Además, cuando llevo el micrófono en una pértiga, me es muy cómodo poder llevar la grabadora al cuello, ya que me libera las manos para sostener la pértiga. A QUIÉN LE RECOMIENDO LA ZOOM En mi caso, invertí en un sistema de audio bastante completo para grabaciones casi profesionales. Si no desease invertir tanto, compraría la Zoom, ya que su sistema de microfonía integrado permite acoplar la grabadora directamente sobre una pértiga, omitiendo el gasto en microfonía, paravientos y demás.

La calidad de audio es buenísima. Tiene 2 IN mono balanceados y uno extra estereo (que te puede salvar, aunque no sería balanceado). Es pequeña y no pesa tanto. Está espectacular