Students at a Colchester college were chosen to try out a prototype piece of recording equipment which makers claim could revolutionise music in the classroom.
The special equipment has been used at Colchester Sixth Form College as part of a trial for the past week.
The prototype means people can record straight from microphone to compact disc (CD) without it having to go through a computer first. It means both music and speech can be digitally recorded straight on to CD and immediately played back.
The college in North Hill today welcomed Edward Coomber, of Coomber Electronics, who came along to meet the college's head of performing arts, Nigel Hildreth, to discuss how the trial had gone.
College spokesman Phil Brighty said: "The college has spent the last week trialling a prototype of a real time CD recorder for use in the classroom. What makes this piece of kit special is that it can record direct from a microphone on to a CD with immediate playback, save and editing functions, thus bypassing the need to download on to a computer and then burn on to a CD Rom."
Published Tuesday May 25, 2004
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