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Zoom H4 first impressions
Came home to a box from BSW. The Zoom H4 had arrived. I have read the manual once all that follows is an initial impression only. I saw the demo one at the Podcast Expo and had BSW send me one ( in exchange for cash and $20 off coupon ) Definetely a company I will be doing more business with.
Good: Pretty good stereo on the inbuilt mics when the compression is turned off. When it's got the pop shield on and about 4 inches away it's pretty damn good I'll be carrying it to meetings over the coming weeks ( not at work so don't worry) to see if I can use it as a back up to boards
The mounting bracket it comes with fits on a standard mike stand ( necessary .. it pics up handling noise like a motherforker. Runs on AA cells, no panic when the inbuilt battery dies
Access to monitor for record to recording falls naturally in the handheld grip for me.
price. $299 for a recorder, audio interface and an "effects" unit
Phantom power , drove my mikes no problem , preamps don't seem too bad.
Bad: All the effects are noisy and you hear most of the phase type effects with no input , others you hear a heterodyne like whine ( no that's not me)
Build quality around the memory card / battery flap.
Comes with 128mb card, I know the $299 is a damn good price to offer this at in relation to the competition but come on, add the cost of a reasonable size of recording time into the price and drop the effects
12 mins at CD quality , er thanks.
Clickwheel, not responsive, doesn't seem to seat on center clicks all the time
no immediate access to gain controls other than gross hi/mid/lo the access to gain,
User interface is a pain, the 4 track section is certainly interesting though swapping effects in and out and configuring them per track, just ick. Maybe if the device can be remotely controlled by a pc this would rock.
Undecided. Not sure if it's noisy in general or if it's the headphone amp in particular going to transfer it to pc and have a listen over the monitors , turning on the compresser is it's excuse to ramp
Turning on the compresser ramps up the noise level, doesn't seem configurable in two track mode ( this may be ignorance on my behalf and I'm going to look at it
More , and possibly sound samples as I play with it.
Good: Pretty good stereo on the inbuilt mics when the compression is turned off. When it's got the pop shield on and about 4 inches away it's pretty damn good I'll be carrying it to meetings over the coming weeks ( not at work so don't worry) to see if I can use it as a back up to boards
The mounting bracket it comes with fits on a standard mike stand ( necessary .. it pics up handling noise like a motherforker. Runs on AA cells, no panic when the inbuilt battery dies
Access to monitor for record to recording falls naturally in the handheld grip for me.
price. $299 for a recorder, audio interface and an "effects" unit
Phantom power , drove my mikes no problem , preamps don't seem too bad.
Bad: All the effects are noisy and you hear most of the phase type effects with no input , others you hear a heterodyne like whine ( no that's not me)
Build quality around the memory card / battery flap.
Comes with 128mb card, I know the $299 is a damn good price to offer this at in relation to the competition but come on, add the cost of a reasonable size of recording time into the price and drop the effects
12 mins at CD quality , er thanks. Clickwheel, not responsive, doesn't seem to seat on center clicks all the time
no immediate access to gain controls other than gross hi/mid/lo the access to gain,
User interface is a pain, the 4 track section is certainly interesting though swapping effects in and out and configuring them per track, just ick. Maybe if the device can be remotely controlled by a pc this would rock.
Undecided. Not sure if it's noisy in general or if it's the headphone amp in particular going to transfer it to pc and have a listen over the monitors , turning on the compresser is it's excuse to ramp
Turning on the compresser ramps up the noise level, doesn't seem configurable in two track mode ( this may be ignorance on my behalf and I'm going to look at it
More , and possibly sound samples as I play with it.
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