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Aug 02, 2012
No better than the Zoom H4n
2 of 2 found this helpful My first portable recording equipment was a Sony cassette unit with a microphone in the early 70s when I was a student at a university that had a solid communications department. I did interviews for the college radio station on it and for classes in broadcast journalism. Now, some 40 years later, I'm out of the business, but still have interests in talking with people and getting good audio.
I spent a few weeks researching portable audio recorders. I knew I needed USB connectivity. I wanted to be able to use a variety of different microphones for interviewing and for voiceover work....which is what I gravitated to in my later career. Quality audio was a must. So I found the Zoom H4n. Whomever is responsible for this product has invented the greatest portable recorder. It's a studio in your hand. When the Beatles recorded Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band the recordings by George Martin were done in four tracks. Huge equipment filled the studio. I believe a person could re-record Sgt. Peppers with the Zoom H4n. I'm still exploring it's capabilities haveing just acquired two separate microphones that are going to need phantom power...something the Zoom does with ease. I seriously may not have enough imagination to fill the capabilities of this unit. I added at 32GB SDHC card and the unit tells me I can record 553 hours of MP3 quality audio with it...or rougly 14 hours of the best .wav files in 24 bit 96 hz quality. One of the first things I did was to record a thunderstorm sitting on the backyard porch next to the creek. It's 17 minutes of remarkable audio...rain, water, thunder rising and falling. I would like to have had two better mics at the time, but the built-in mics set at 120 degrees did a remarkable job. My first cassette recorder could record 4 hours with extended cassettes...hiss...and all kinds of other stuff and not in stereo. I open my thunderstorm file on my big stereo speakers my Dell XPS 8100 and my Teac amp...and this small pair of old Advent shelf speakers...honestly, I thought I was hearing the thunderstorm just as I was recording it. Now, I'm not an audio purist...I'm probably missing some things...but for the life of my I can't figure out what. I've done some voiceover with the twin mics...and they sound fine to me...very close if not spot on broadcast quality. Maybe even better. My two new mics arrived the other day...two TC Helicon MP 70s...and I'll try some interviewing with them. I'll probably get a couple of other mics for other kinds of recording....like nature sounds...etc. I'm not rich...honestly, I've scraped the bottom of the barrel to buy this and that...but my investment in the Zoom H4n has been the best investment in recording equipment I've ever made...and it's so easy to send those files over the my Audacity DAW....though I'm learning a couple of other DAWs just in case I also want to do some midi work....I played piano for years as a dedicated amateur. Well, the Zoom H4n is over the top for me. I'm 60 years old...and one would think that I couldn't get excited anymore about working with audio since I used to edit radio ads on an 8 track system with SFX libraries and canned music libraries...but I am excited for some strange reason and I want to do so much now with, who knows, what time I might have left. And getting the Zoom what the best decision I've made in a long, long time. Maybe there's something better out there on the market...I haven't seen it yet.
Jul 10, 2018
Worth it.
Really like this machine. I've had a Brother before...so easy to use. I've already sewn some things I never did before. Excellent.
Jun 20, 2018
When Jeep wanted $250...i found this for almost 1/100th the price.
good value and it works.