The PCM-D50 is fitted with 4 GB of internal flash memory and a Memory
Stick Pro-HG Duo^(TM) slot.
To be fair, if you thought the noise floor was too high on the H1, then
either you have a very special purpose for it, like recording speech in
super quiet environments, or you've wasted your money because you don't
understand that 99% of sounds you capture are loud enough to mask the
sound. And if they're not, use an expander/gate on your recording
afterwards. The H1 is not designed for the same applications that the
PCMD50 is, but that's not to say it can't do a damn good job. And as
you said, for $99, not only can you honestly not get anything better,
but you'd be a fool to suggest that a $99 piece of kit with no menus is
up to the same standards of a menu-driven, $600 recorder like the PCMD50.
With the Sony recorder, or any other recorder with menus but no speech,
you have a hell of a lot more to remember than sample and bit rate. For
a start, you need to remember where those settings are in the menu
system, never mind how to set them once you get there. So I don't see
it as a floor of the recorder, as only the DM4, DM520 etc from Olympus
overcome memory problems by providing speech feedback.
Previously, Dane Trethowan said:
Yeah but correct me please about a few issues that the Sony machine has, for
example can it only use memory stick? If so then I'm not particularly
interested in that.
As the review states on the H1, the noise factor of the Zoom H1 is only noticable in
very quiet environments and you can hear this in the review itself so given all that?
Well I reckon $99.0 U.S. is an absolute bargain. Admitedly you'll need a reasonable
memory to remember what the format and sampling rate is set to but most people I know
have good memories<smile>.
On 20/09/2010, at 12:01 AM, Kelly Pierce wrote:
wow, this price sounds great, even with a conversion rate. This
recorder still has a high noise floor compared to minidisc recorders.
I ended up deciding to pay more for a sony PCM D50 for the lower noise
floor for broadcast quality recordings on the cheap.
Kelly
On 9/16/10, Dane Trethowan<grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Hi!
For those in Australia who are thinking about purchasing one of these superb
recorders you may wish to hang fire for a week or two. Dynamic Music - the
Australian distributors - are undergoing a major price restructure for all
the products they sell right now and are expected to announce new attractive
pricing for the H1, it should be available for $120.00 Australian which
includes warrantees and so on, I'd rather that than say purchasing
internationally or through Ebay<smile>.
For full details consult yesterdays Age Newspaper, the Green Guide Section
and the Bleeding Edge column.
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