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<p>Dear Listmembers,</p>
<p>Has anyone field-tested the <a
href="https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/h6-handy-recorder">Zoom
H6 </a>yet? One of my students is interested in taking it out,
but I personally can't see that it adds any features that langdoc
people would be interested in, and might have a few undesirables.
Specifically, although the swapping-around of different capsules
is certainly cool, and while the internal mics for Zoom recorders
are certainly *pretty* good, they're nowhere near as good as
good-quality 3rd party mics are, so this seems a little gimmicky
to me - am I wrong? Also, I'm concerned that the colour LCD
display on the H6 might eat up batteries faster than the H4n
display did. And I can't think of any reason we'd want sooooo many
independent XLR inputs, unless there's a really complicated mic
setup (like a ritual performance, in which you want both a headset
on the principal speaker and some other sort of mics on a lot of
other people, and you actually have the money for all of the mics
and the time and inclination to actually do some signal mixing
afterwards). So it seems to me to be a pretty specific tool which
most people recording monologues and 2-3 person interactions can
probably do without, or at least won't offer any advantages over
the cheaper H4n. Any thoughts?<br>
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<p>Thanks in advance,<br>
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Mark
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