Last month marked the beginning of the second phase of the PhD research: the fieldwork. Voice recording is central to my research design as it forms part of the interviews, observations and focus groups methods. The challenge for the latter two of these is to be able to clearly record a number of different people who are sat some distance apart.
My main recorder is an Olympus WS-311M http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/2581_ws-311m.htm which costs around ?70:
