H4

[phil cash cash]

Eric,
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.  
Phil
UofA
Quoting "Eric Poncet [NunaSoft]" :

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


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