Re: Zoom H4 for laptop looping

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> 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!


> On 11 nov 2006, at 02.29, RP Collier wrote:

> Does it come with windscreens for the microphones? I did not notice  
> that in the product details.

Yes. A little "foam ball" to wrap over the two mics. Size between a  
golf and tennis ball.


> How do you find the recording in terms of "handling"? Is it overly  
> sensitive to handling vibration and sudden directional changes?

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!

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 ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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