Sony Announces PCM-M10 Digital Field Recorder

July 20th, 2009 – Sony today launched its latest digital field recorder, the PCM-M10. Will a retail price around $399, the PCM-D1 will go head-to-head with similarly sized and priced recorders including the Marantz PMD620, Tascam DR-1, and Zoom H4n.

The Sony PCM-D10 will be the cheapest flash-based recorder from Sony capable of recording 96kHz/24-bit stereo audio using either the internal electret condenser mics or an external mic or line input. The recorder has 4GB of built in memory and a MicroSD/Memory Stick Micro slot. This is the first time any Sony recorder has accepted any form of flash media other than Sony's proprietary Memory Stick format.

The new recorder is 96 kHz/24-bit capable with electret condenser stereo microphones, 4 GB of internal flash memory and a microSD/Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) Slot*.

Key features include:
-a built-in speaker
-cross-memory recording
-digital pitch control
-digital limiter
-low-cut filter
-track mark functions
-a 5-second pre-recording buffer; and,
-A-B repeat capability

The PCM-M10 comes supplied with Sound Forge Audio Studio Recorder Edition software.

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