Re: Zoom H4 for laptop looping

[Joshua Carroll <josh@infinivert.com>]

Ha!  You beat me to it.

--Josh

Per Boysen wrote:
>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Per Boysen wrote:
>>>  But the H4 is great bang for the buck as a field recorder IMO!
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>> On 11 nov 2006, at 02.29, RP Collier wrote:
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>> Does it come with windscreens for the microphones? I did not notice 
>> that in the product details.
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> Yes. A little "foam ball" to wrap over the two mics. Size between a 
> golf and tennis ball.
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>> How do you find the recording in terms of "handling"? Is it overly 
>> sensitive to handling vibration and sudden directional changes?
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> As all sensitive microphones it is not wise to carry it by hand for 
> the best recording result. It comes with a bottom plate for a tripod, 
> but no tripod, and this is the way to place it if you want to make 
> serious recordings in hifi. The stereo mic seems to be very good!
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> I will use mine a lot as a hand held field recorder when doing 
> interviews in noisy environments. Then I typically use the built-in 
> compressor and record directly to 128 kbps mp3. Back home I pop in the 
> USB cable and lift over the file to the Mac for listening writing it 
> out as text. I've been hauling my powerbook for years when doing field 
> interviews (set up Audio Hi-Jack with a low cut filter and Vintage 
> Warmer directly on the built-in mic iinput) and for me the H4's 
> portability is a huge pro. For example: I waited years before buying 
> an iPod before I thought there might come one with recording 
> capability - but as we know that never happened ;-)
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> Greetings from Sweden
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> Per Boysen
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