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Review title: Great - BUT automatic gain control not good
Product review: I'm charmed with this little gem, which I will use mainly for taping meetings. But the advertised automatic gain control does not work as advertised. It does limit high intensity sounds so the recording doesn't overload, but it does not automatically boost low level sounds. Indeed as soon as you switch in automatic gain control, the microphone sensitivity is lowered so you are less likely to pick up softer sounds. It's still great in many other ways, but they would have better advertised the R-09 as having limiting circuits, not as automatic gain control....I thought at first that I had a defective unit, but Edirol tech support tells me this is the normal way the unit operates.
