I finally received my digital recorder yesterday, after having waited for it for several months. My main motivation for acquiring it was to do high quality recordings using a condenser microphone, which require phantom power. Normal audio cards don’t have the cable inputs for this. I’ll use this to do better voice recordings (that just leaves my actual voice…) and especially better acoustic guitar recordings.
Edirol FireWire AudioCapture FA-101
The model is an Edirol FireWire AudioCapture FA-101. I chose the model because of its seemingly excellent Linux support (at least from what I can read online), as well as it having lots of jack inputs, which I use for most of my electrical instruments. My initial experiments in Linux revealed some stutter in the sound, but hopefully this will go away after driver updates and some tweaking.
Next on the list: A good condenser microphone!