The Zoom H1 is absolutely perfect for this, only thing you may wish to do is to turn the input gain down a little bit from its default of 50, 30 may be a good level.
On 18/11/2010, at 11:16 AM, Tim Crawford wrote: > Hi, > > I'd be interested to hear any comments on the quality of recordings made by > the h1 from a line-in source. > > I'm looking for something to make good quality recordings from a satelite > receiver or fm tuner. > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:43 PM > Subject: Re: Question about the Zoom H1 recorder > > >> The Zoom H1 recorder is probably the easiest recorder for anyone to use >> which has ever been invented, its only some poor unfortunates who make it >> hard or impossible by making mountains out of mole hills, I've received a >> lot of private email on this subject and you just wouldn't believe the stuff >> I've read. One person wrote that he wouldn't buy one because it wasn't >> accessible, accessible?Well if you can use a cassette recorder then you can >> certainly use a Zoom H1 and if its not accessible then nothing ever will be. >> >> Yes of course the Zoom H1 has some problems and one I think worth noting >> concerns the buttons on the side of the recorder, they're rather small so if >> you have bing fingers then that may be tricky however, the developers of the >> recorder - when you look at the size of the unit - had little choice so if >> you want small? Well sacrifices have to be made somewhere. >> >> One great feature of this recorder is its output amp, incredibly powerful, >> clear and loud so I can only assume that this recorder uses a digital amp of >> some kind. >> >> >> >> Sent from Dane's Iphone +61457756048 >> >> >> On 18/11/2010, at 10:35 AM, "Gary Schindler" <garys5...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> Chek sweetwater for an adobe manual. like dane says there isn't much to it. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" >>> <grtd...@internode.on.net> >>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Cc: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:26 PM >>> Subject: Re: Question about the Zoom H1 recorder >>> >>> >>>> I only had the printed manual and perhaps manual isn't the best way to >>>> describe it because there's nothing much to read <smile> but at least I >>>> got that useful scrap of information <smile>. >>>> >>>> Once again my hearing aids with their induction pickups came to the >>>> rescue, you see they told me that the Zoom was taking current from the >>>> battery even when the power was off. >>>> >>>> Given the fact that recording time with the Zoom is about 8 hours then it >>>> makes perfect sense to carry around backup batteries with you anyway so >>>> this whole thing about batteries draining when the power was off was a >>>> trivial matter as far as I was concerned at any rate. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from Dane's Iphone +61457756048 >>>> >>>> >>>> On 18/11/2010, at 6:14 AM, "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbul...@runbox.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Were you able to find a manual online, or did you only have the printed >>>>> one? >>>>> Matthew >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
