[RNLD] H6

[Mark W. Post]

Dear Listmembers,

Has anyone field-tested the Zoom H6 
<https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/h6-handy-recorder>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?

Thanks in advance,

Mark
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