This is a blog post, not a review. A review is coming, but this is just an entry for later on.. I am having a blast with this Sony PCM-D50

Before I played drums, I enjoyed a nice thunderstorm behind my house. I grabbed the recorder and set it on my back porch and captured this (WARNING THERE IS LOUD THUNDER DON'T POP YOUR SPEAKER!):

I have a fountain in my pool which added to the ambient sound. If you listen closely, you can hear the pool pump humming.

So I made it out to my Roland TD-20 V-Drums and recorded a few things with the recorder. The built-in limiter and the built in processing that keeps the audio clean on this Sony PCM-D50 is freaking amazing!

Here's me grooving to some Mavin Gaye - "T" Plays it Cool. I love this song for the drum fills, it's a sweet ass song.

Then I played around with this on the "Lite" kit on the Roland TD-20:

I'm no rock star, but this Sony PCM-D50 kicks ass! Look at the Beautiful Audio that comes out of this thing:

Note: I saw the battery indicator saying it was on it's last bar (low battery) and after that, I continued to record at 48khz for about 35 - 40 minutes, then I played it all back through my headphones on the PCM-D50 and also transferred 2.5 GB worth of data to the computer on that low battery.  The battery life is unbelievable. 4 AA batteries lasted for more than 12 - 16 hours of continuous use this past week.