26 Jul
2013
26 Jul
'13
5:55 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:26:21 +0200
Philipp Überbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I finally want to buy a small field recording device, a zoom H* or
similar, and I hope that some of you have experience with some of those
devices and can give me some advice.
I tried the H2N some time ago. I was impressed by the sound quality, I
liked the 4 built-in microphones which you can use in different
configurations.
But I was underwhelmed by what is probably the self-noise of the thing.
Whenever I tried to record low-volume stuff, like someone talking
quietly a meter away or so, or animal noises in some distance, and later
digitally amplified that to a normal level, white noise became audible
quickly. I thought these devices would have a better signal-to-noise
ratio. I tried different settings (uncompressed, 16/24 bits, different
sampling rates) with no luck. Maybe I overestimated what devices in
that price range can do.
In the end I returned it. Want to buy another one, but not sure which.