Vloggers or videographers can attach the LS-P1 to their camera hot shoes via the included adapter. Other features on the LS-P1 include a choice of five recording levels, including Automatic and Manual, a low-cut filter for removing background noise, and a limiter for use when setting the recording level manually, and which can be optimised for either voices or music. If recording a static subject speaking, you’d favour a setting of +6 to capture as much ambient noise as possible, you’d go for -3.) (The feature is enabled via the menu system using a graphic not unlike the angle of view diagram familiar to photographers. The LS-P1 has 90º directional microphones and a Zoom mode offers targeted focus on the desired sound being recorded. MP3 recording is also an option on both recorders (with, as mentioned, the addition of the FLAC format on the LS-P4).Īs a long-term user of the (now discontinued) Olympus LS-5 linear PCM recorder, shoehorning in all this under-the-hood capability into a smaller form factor is some achievement by Olympus: the LS-P1 is positively dinky – just 10.89cm tall by 3.96cm wide, with a weight of 0.75kg – making it ideal for hot-shoe mounting on today’s ultra-video-capable compact mirrorless cameras, as well as bigger and chunkier rigs.Ĭompared to the Olympus LS-5 linear PCM recorder, the Olympus LS-P1 is positively dinky (Image credit: Future) (opens in new tab) Key features Olympus LS-P1 at Amazon for $240 (opens in new tab)īilled by Olympus as the most compact high-resolution audio recorders in their class, the LS-P1 and LS-P4 both record at a higher quality than CDs (44.1kHz), saving the files to 4GB of internal flash memory, or to microSD cards with capacities of up to 32GB (an 8GB card is included in both kits).īoth the LS-P1 and LS-P4 offer a professional-level sampling rate of up to 96kHz/24-bit, in linear PCM WAV format. The Olympus LS-P1 can be easily mounted on a camera for high quality audio (Image credit: Future)
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