OT: portable audio recorders

[david kirkdorffer <unstrungone@yahoo.com>]

I too have the H2.  Rainer is spot on with this observations.    In my rock-band application, this is a problem:

 

  2) the mic sensitivity switch has three positions. The lowest sensitivity is already too sensitive when trying to record an acoustic jazz trio.

 

 

NOTE: with there "seems" to be an ability to attenuate the signal that you can access, it is operating on the converted digital signal AFTER the mic/pre-amp where the clipping has already happened.  Drum impacts are often the culprit for me.  And the built-in compression systems are no help either.  Great for spoken word and lectures however! :-)

 

So, if your sound pressure levels are less rigorous,  the sound quality of the recordings is really  o u t s t a n d i n g .  

 

So, if you work with high sound pressure levels, investigate how any signal attenuation is accomplished.

 

I hope that helps.

 

David.

 

 

 

From:

"Rainer Straschill" <moinsound@googlemail.com>

To:

"" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>

Jeff Duke schrieb:
> I am looking to replace my aging Sony 702 mini disk recorder (still works). Anyone have a recommendation? Budget minded so I was looking at the Zoom H2. I would use it for field recordings and grabbing live gigs on the fly. After reading mixed reviews I thought to ask here for hands on experience.
> 
I have the Zoom H2. Three things that suck:
  1) no level adjustment for the line in before the converters
  2) the mic sensitivity switch has three positions. The lowest sensitivity is already too sensitive when trying to record an acoustic jazz trio.
  3) you need to set date/time info again every time you exchange batteries.

Apart from that, it works fine, really.

So due to (2) aboove, you might have problems with the "live gig" use case.

        Rainer

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