Eric, <br /><br />Good luck and I hope your H4 works out well! One of the
constant dilemmas is not knowing if your equipment will stand up to the
ongoing struggles of fieldwork. Just make sure to get hard casing for all
your equipment...mine was so essential. <br /><br />Phil<br />UofA<br
/><br />Quoting "Eric Poncet [NunaSoft]"
<tmp@NUNASOFT.COM>:<br />
<br />
> Hi all,<br />
><br />
> I bought one Zoom H4 recently, after a careful study of what was on
the<br />
> market. I need it for upcoming fieldwork in Central Yukon. So far
I've<br />
> done a bunch of tests, and they all pass!<br />
> It cost me $379 (CAN$). This device has all the features I was
dreaming<br />
> of (and I'm quite a dreamer when it comes to technology and
languages...).<br />
> As the guy has XLR plugs and Phantom Power, I'll use it with an AKG<br
/>
> C451B (very good pencil mike) and/or an Audio-Technica AT897 (great<br
/>
> shotgun mike).<br />
> I'll record everything in WAV (uncompressed) on a 2GB SD card (it's
the<br />
> max size managed by the H4). Having an SD slot on my laptop, I'll be<br
/>
> able to burn those raw recordings on an audio CD in a snap, freeing
up<br />
> space on the SD card AND archiving the data in a standard format<br />
> playable by any CD player around.<br />
> This will hopefully give great recordings of Elders' speeches,<br />
> performances, songs, nature sounds, allowing for lots of linguistic
work<br />
> on all this cultural material.<br />
><br />
> FYI, it manages MP3 pretty well also, with several bitrates
available<br />
> (including VBR=Variable Bit Rate).<br />
><br />
> There's one remaining question, though: I have no clue, so far,
about<br />
> the robustness of the device. (Yukon) Time will tell...<br />
><br />
> A huge "Thank You" to Phil and all participants for their
outstanding<br />
> job on ILAT!!!<br />
><br />
> Cheers from Montreal,<br />
> Eric<br />
> <a" target="_blank"
href="https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nunasoft.com">http://www.nunasoft.com<br
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><br />
> phil cash cash a écrit :<br />
>> This interesting product came out earlier this year, so take a
peek:<br />
>><br />
>> Samson H2 - Handy Recorder<br />
>> <a" target="_blank"
href="https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsontech.com%2Fproducts%2Fproductpage.cfm%3FprodID%3D1916">http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1916<br
/>
>><br />
>> If you haven't already checked out their H4 just follow the links
on the<br />
>> above page. I would suggest looking at some H4 reviews via
Google,<br />
>> however.<br />
>><br />
>> Anyway, just some more new ultra-portable gadgetry for the
language-oriented<br />
>> masses. If you have one, let us know how you what you do with it
and so<br />
>> on...<br />
>><br />
>> Phil<br />
>><br />
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