On 1 February 2010 at 2:11, alexander <axeldenstore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Like many others here I have a zoom too, I got the newer h4n > tho. All in all they are quite similar I've only briefly tried > the h4. The preamps are suppose to be less noisy in the newer > one but I suspect the difference is quite insignificant. These > devices are not made to make super high quality recordings of > quiet sources but you should get away with a moderately played > acoustic guitar, from a distance of, say 60cm.. using a pair of > condenser mics with good output levels should also yield better > result. Do you know if the Zoom units are less noisy when using the line inputs? I might want to use an H2 as a USB card with my laptop to digitize my record album collection so that I don't have to drag my turntable into my studio and use my Delta 1010. I'm sure the latter would give me really good results though. > With the h4n you can also use a special 4track mode to record 4 > tracks simultaneously, internal mics + external inputs. Very interesting feature in a hand-held unit. > All in all it's a device well worth the money paid. I tried it > as an interface too, I couldn't get it running full duplex, > ie. I had to use my internal card as output. Interesting. I wonder whether it's the driver or the recorder. Do you know if the Zoom units will run full-duplex on other operating systems? > And I only got buffer size down to 512frames 2 periods @ > 48khz. However, I don't run an rt kernel atm.. Even so, isn't 512 frames and 2 periods fairly good? Thanks! -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
