1 Feb
2010
1 Feb
'10
2:29 p.m.
On 1 February 2010 at 2:11, alexander <axeldenstore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Like many others here I have a zoom too, I got the
newer h4n
tho. All in all they are quite similar I've only briefly tried
the h4. The preamps are suppose to be less noisy in the newer
one but I suspect the difference is quite insignificant. These
devices are not made to make super high quality recordings of
quiet sources but you should get away with a moderately played
acoustic guitar, from a distance of, say 60cm.. using a pair of
condenser mics with good output levels should also yield better
result.
Do you know if the Zoom units are less noisy when using the line
inputs? I might want to use an H2 as a USB card with my laptop
to digitize my record album collection so that I don't have to
drag my turntable into my studio and use my Delta 1010. I'm sure
the latter would give me really good results though.
With the h4n you can also use a special 4track mode to
record 4
tracks simultaneously, internal mics + external inputs.
Very interesting feature in a hand-held unit.
All in all it's a device well worth the money
paid. I tried it
as an interface too, I couldn't get it running full duplex,
ie. I had to use my internal card as output.
Interesting. I wonder whether it's the driver or the recorder.
Do you know if the Zoom units will run full-duplex on other
operating systems?
And I only got buffer size down to 512frames 2 periods
@
48khz. However, I don't run an rt kernel atm..
Even so, isn't 512 frames and 2 periods fairly good?
Thanks!
--
Kevin