voice recorder

[Damien Hall]

Aidan Wilson sent me this message about how to get hold of the Zoom H4N. I 
think it was intended for the whole list.

I wasn't aware that there was a difference of a few hundred dollars (which 
would apply in either AUS or US, I suppose!) between the H4 and the H4N. If 
so, and if budgets are constrained (when are they not?), then it might not 
be worth buying an H4N until they come down in price. But I do hold to my 
view that, for the fieldworker who wants a machine that is easy to handle 
in the field and produces recordings of excellent quality (for fieldwork 
recordings), the H4N is an improvement over the H4.

Damien

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:22:31 +1000
From: Aidan Wilson <aidan at usyd.edu.au>
To: djh514 at york.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [ILAT] voice recorder

I've seen it around a few places online now in the high 800s Australian, 
and, you know, we usually get ripped off, so you could probably find it 
in the US for about 400 bucks. Obviously don't take my word for it though.

The benefits over the H4 aren't terribly clear to me, or more 
accurately, I can't see that they're worth the extra few hundred bucks, 
apart from the slightly more sophisticated preamps and directional x/y mics.

-Aidan
Paradisec

Damien Hall wrote:
> Paula wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Damien. It looks great! But I can't find the price. I guess 
>> it's pretty high, since they don't really advertise it. Could you 
>> direct me to a page for pricing? Thank you again. Paula 
>
> I'm afraid I don't know how much the machine is; and asking around at 
> my institution probably won't help much either, since we are bound to 
> have some sort of institutional discount. But any good electronics 
> store will surely either stock them or at least - if they're too new 
> to be on the shelves yet - will be able to tell you how much they are. 
> Also (for Paula's case), if you want this for work to do with your 
> job, mightn't you be able to get one at an institutional discount 
> through your School District?
>
> All the best - byin le boujou!
>
> Damien
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Damien Hall" <djh514 at york.ac.uk> To: 
>> <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:49 AM 
>> Subject: [ILAT] voice recorder
>>
>>
>>> Daryn said:
>>>
>>> 'Zoom have just released a new H4Next and it is awesome, I got one 
>>> of the
>>> first in the country (Oz) and they were a hit at our national language
>>> conference.
>>>
>>> http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h4n/index.php=20 '
>>>
>>> I agree. On the sociolinguistic project we're running, we started 
>>> off using one of the older Zoom models (H2, I think), and that was 
>>> already pretty good, but the recording levels were rather low. By 
>>> the time we got another machine, the H4N was out, so we got that 
>>> instead, and the levels are noticeably better. There are also other 
>>> improvements over the previous Zoom, such as adjustable-range mics 
>>> (90-deg or 120-deg field), an explicit separate Stop button (to stop 
>>> recording on the older Zoom you had to press the Record button 
>>> again), and much easier access to the battery- and 
>>> memory-card-compartments.
>>>
>>> So the Zoom H4N is very much to be recommended!
>>>
>>> Damien Hall
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Damien Hall
>>>
>>> University of York
>>> Department of Language and Linguistic Science
>>> Heslington
>>> YORK
>>> YO10 5DD
>>> UK
>>>
>>> Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665
>>>     (mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634
>>> Fax  +44 (0)1904 432673
>>>
>>> http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb/
>>> http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm 
>>
>>
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