I own a Zoom H4N. I bought the H1 so I could do casual recording of live
music while out in bars. The Pros: It has great mikes, like all ZOOMs.
It does a nice job of being directional (and minimizing crowd
conversations, etc). At one gig, it was set a couple of feet in front of
us on the table, and picked up almost no talking. It is VERY tiny, and
you could probably turn it on and stick it to a wall with some
double-sided carpet tape (getting above the crowd noise). I am working
out how to bungie cord it to a pole. Although starting it up take a full
minute with a 16GB card, once it is on it is unobtrusive and fits in my
pocket even with a mini-tripod attached.
The Big Con. The
auto-level will drive you insane. After recording three different bands,
I can say that unless I learn more than I already know, using the
autolevel is useless in a band/bar environment. It will record at full
volume for a while (5-15 seconds of the song) , and then dramatically
cut the gain (50% or more) to the point that the recording can really
only be used if you get with an editing program later on and fix the
screwed up volume levels. I would not even give the unedited recording
to the band, as the volume switching is insanely bad, IMHO, the auto
level switching algorithms need to be reconsidered and tweaked for a
less-techie environment. Perhaps faster and more gradual adjustments?
But I am not a pro-engineer, just an amateur with enough knowledge to be
dangerous. I have worked with other AGC circuits that are much more
useful.
I am going this afternoon to record another band, and
will try it with manual-only settings to see if that is practical. I
suspect it will have its own issues, since bands tend to change levels
from song to song. Monitoring is not practical, and adjusting volumes is
tedious. This device is VERY sensitive to handling noise. I will post
an update to this review if I learn anything useful about how to solve
this problem.
I also agree with the other comments to get a
RedHead windscreen. They are awesome, whereas foam windscreens are
mostly useless. The door for the MicroSD card seems very fragile. I
thought I broke mine opening it. Be careful installing it, and then
never touch it again. If you really want to monitor recordings, get some
good noise-isolation ear plugs, and forget earbuds or cheap headphones.
I did NOT buy the accessory kit, since phones, windscreen, etc are
useless. Buy ala carte.
My hope was to have a real one-button
solution to recording bands (set it and forget it), and I am not sure
this device meets that target yet. I have also not yet tried a calmer
environment like a solo performer. That is in the plans for tomorrow.
The AGC may work fine there.
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