On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:26:21 +0200 Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I finally want to buy a small field recording device, a zoom H* or > similar, and I hope that some of you have experience with some of those > devices and can give me some advice. I tried the H2N some time ago. I was impressed by the sound quality, I liked the 4 built-in microphones which you can use in different configurations. But I was underwhelmed by what is probably the self-noise of the thing. Whenever I tried to record low-volume stuff, like someone talking quietly a meter away or so, or animal noises in some distance, and later digitally amplified that to a normal level, white noise became audible quickly. I thought these devices would have a better signal-to-noise ratio. I tried different settings (uncompressed, 16/24 bits, different sampling rates) with no luck. Maybe I overestimated what devices in that price range can do. In the end I returned it. Want to buy another one, but not sure which. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
