Re: Edirol R09 Vs Zoom products. H2 or H4 (or others)

On Feb 9, 7:31 am, Mike Rivers <mriv...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 9, 1:33 am, Unkie <Un...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 I am thinking about purchasing a hand held type Mp3/WAV recorder like
the Edirol R09, or the Zoom (Samson) H2 or H4 for recording band
rehearsals etc..
 What is the preferred unit of choice??

The one you prefer.

I was going to get the Edirol, but then some people in another group
were talking up the Zoom H4..

To further confuse the issue, there were no less than five new
handheld digital recorders at the NAMM show last month.

I just don't like the H4 because it doesn't feel good in my hand, the
display is difficult to read, it's hard to adjust, and the buttons and
4-way rocker control feel like they're going to break. As far as I'm
concerned, the only thing it has going for it is the XLR connectors
and phantom power for external mics. It does have some features that
make it attractive to musicians needing a "notepad" - you can do
overdubs on it, for instance. But I think the H2 sounds better with
the built-in mics and it feels a lot nicer to operate. Plus it's
cheap.

The Edirol probably sounds a little better than either of the Zooms
with the built-in mics and feels pretty good to operate, but there may
not be enough difference to justify the cost. A lot of people like the
M-Audio Micro Track, which is now in its second generation. The new
ones from Marantz, TASCAM, Yamaha, Olympus, and I-forget-who-else are
still untested territory.

Got the H2. As a notepad and all round recorder it's nice. I can't
compare it to edirol/Sony/maudio/marantz but it did have some features
not present with the others. The display could be/should be larger.
The case could be a tad more road worthy and these improvements would
be worth a price increase yes. It could have a gig or 2 of built in
memory + the media card slot. File names should support more than the
001/002 so on, so a loaded file would be named as it should.
The Zoom H2 is cool as is but I'd pay for real features and a solid
built case. The price is in line with the features and if you can put
up with it's less than perfect feature set.

Is does 4 tracks at once with 4 built in Mic's at a resolution of
24/96 down to a direct mp3 recording at much lower rates/file size.
This sudo surround sound won't be used every day but it is there.
Comparable to a cam corder audio capture which I've used in the past.
.

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