I am a working musician and am looking for a high density recorder/playback unit capable of all the facilities of a MiniDisc but with greater capacity. I have been looking at the Fostex FR-2 field recorder but I can't find out the various recording times for the 1, 2, 4 and 8GB cards. Bill Bridges
It's hard to say, because the capacity depends on the sound quality. The Fostex can record in Broadcast WAV Format (24-bit 96kHz), and the rule of thumb is 2GB per hour. If you record in 24-bit 48kHz stereo then you'll use 1GB per hour (or 1GB per 57.8 minutes), and so on, pro rata. If you recorded in the highly compressed 192kbps MP3 format, you'd get about 12.4 hours per gigabyte.
