reco for handheld digital recorder

gtr_joe · Post by **gtr_joe** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:25 am

At work, somebody brought me an ancient microcassette recorder and wanted over an hour and a half of yapping digitized and burned to CD.

Excruciating long load into Pro Tools. Excruciating long bounce to mp3.

Anybody know of a butt-simple easy-to-use field digital recorder that doesn't cost a fortune. Better they should buy one of these than make me go through this again.

Thanks.

firby · Post by **firby** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:41 am

For civilians use zoom h2

For hacks like me I like the tascams.

justinf · Post by **justinf** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:36 am

Anyone have experience with the Tascam DR-07 as compared to the Zoom H2? Xmas gift time for my girl.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:23 am

I almost wish Apple would come out with one. The Zoom H4n I have is loaded full of features, but its menu system is just a pain to use. Not to mention the location of buttons, and button pushes required to do anything seem like afterthoughts.
It is hardly unique in this regard.

dsw · Post by **dsw** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:22 am

Are you sure you have the H4n? the old H4 had a horrible menu system and the buttons were bad, but the NEW H4n is very easy to use and the buttons are easy.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:36 am

it used to be worse? wow.

lyle76 · Post by **lyle76** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:56 pm

I like the M-Audio Micro-Track. Intuitive interface.

LazarusLong · Post by **LazarusLong** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:57 pm

justinf wrote:Anyone have experience with the Tascam DR-07 as compared to the Zoom H2? Xmas gift time for my girl.

Yes. Tascam DR07 makes an ugly "PING" sound with button presses at beginning and end of file. Bad handling noise. H2 looks cheesy as heck. Sounds OK, but menus are lame.

As for best sounding Handheld? Edirol R-09HR. Also intuitive. C'mon, it's Roland.

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:42 pm

I used two h2s today to record a meeting (an interesting one -- bonus). One was used as a room mic with both sides engaged. The other one got passed as a token and sat in the lap. Lo-cut and AGC2 (speech) engaged on both of them. Works great. Now if they could just make HVAC silent, everything'd be great. (haha.) I made the recommendation for'em at work, and they were so much better than the previous cheap&cheesy versions they were using, it was an easy win. Oh, and 8gig SD cards rule.

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:32 am

FWIW, the way I use the H2 (as in my H2 drum thread in the Listen to My Shite forum), is to just figure out how best to get what I need, and leave it set.

I think I'm at 44.1, 16 bit wave with the lightest compression setting, lowest input gain setting.

And I use 4 gig SD cards (generally record about 2 hours worth at a time) so I can rotate 'em.

The only wish I have is that it be EZier to mark a cue onnit - I have paused it before when trying to cue-mark and then lost performance ...

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