Hello,
You might want to check also the "pocketrak" line from Yamaha, they are very very lightweight (I have the 2g and it's only 49 grams).

The recordings are very good and the price fair. I'm really satisfied with mine.

The small form factor of course limits the options for connecting external microphones (no phantom, no XLR)
but as a self contained unit, it'great value.

Hope this helps

Regards

Il giorno 26/lug/2013 15:26, "Philipp Überbacher" <hollunder@lavabit.com> ha scritto:
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 want to use this device to record interesting sounds wherever I am,
so it should be relatively small and and fast to start recording. I
also intend to record lots of quiet or relatively far away sources, I
want to record bird songs rather than guitars. As far as I've seen
those devices use SSDs or similar storage media, so I assume they don't
make any noise on their own, right? I guess the microphone should also
have a low self-noise.

Any recommendations?

Regards,
Philipp

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