The Zoom H1 Audio Recorder Accessaries Kit
Hi! Just updated my blog with a piece describing the accessaries you get in the kit which I believe is well worth the extra money to pay if you have a Zoom H1. http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: The Zoom H1 Audio Recorder Accessaries Kit
I might add to be careful when using the tripod since you could knock it over if not careful. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:40 AM Subject: The Zoom H1 Audio Recorder Accessaries Kit Hi! Just updated my blog with a piece describing the accessaries you get in the kit which I believe is well worth the extra money to pay if you have a Zoom H1. http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com 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
Re: The Zoom H1 Audio Recorder Accessaries Kit
Yes I noted that, also be sure that the legs of the tripod are fully extended. On 30/01/2011, at 5:36 AM, Gary Schindler wrote: I might add to be careful when using the tripod since you could knock it over if not careful. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:40 AM Subject: The Zoom H1 Audio Recorder Accessaries Kit Hi! Just updated my blog with a piece describing the accessaries you get in the kit which I believe is well worth the extra money to pay if you have a Zoom H1. http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com 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
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
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. 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
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
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. 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
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
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 memoriessmile. 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 Trethowangrtd...@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 Ebaysmile. For full details consult yesterdays Age Newspaper, the Green Guide Section and the Bleeding Edge column. 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 -- James Scholes -- Contact Information E-Mail: ja...@jls-radio.com mailto:ja...@jls-radio.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com msnim:add?contact=jamesscho...@msn.com Skype: james.scholes skype:james.scholes?add AOL Instant Messenger: jamesscholes000 aim:addbuddy?screenname=jamesscholes000 Jabber: jamesscho...@jabber.org Social Networks Facebook: jamesscholes000 http://www.facebook.com/jamesscholes000 Twitter: JamesScholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes Last.fm profile: jamesscholes000 http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 www.JamesScholes.com http://www.jamesscholes.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
Yep, makes a huge amount of sense to me and thanks for clarifying the memory capabilities of the Sony PC-MD50. Unfortunately we cannot get that machine in Australia otherwise I'd consider it but for $99.00 U.S.? Well the Zoom H1 is one of those devices not to be passed up. On 20/09/2010, at 7:45 AM, James Scholes wrote: 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 memoriessmile. 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 Trethowangrtd...@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 Ebaysmile. For full details consult yesterdays Age Newspaper, the Green Guide Section and the Bleeding Edge column. 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 -- James Scholes -- Contact Information E-Mail: ja...@jls-radio.com mailto:ja...@jls-radio.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com msnim:add?contact=jamesscho...@msn.com Skype: james.scholes skype:james.scholes?add AOL Instant Messenger: jamesscholes000 aim:addbuddy?screenname=jamesscholes000 Jabber: jamesscho...@jabber.org Social Networks Facebook: jamesscholes000 http://www.facebook.com/jamesscholes000 Twitter: JamesScholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes Last.fm profile: jamesscholes000 http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 www.JamesScholes.com http://www.jamesscholes.com -- 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
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
I wrote to Neal after his review debuted, but didn't get a response. I wonder if when you turn off the recorder, if the sampling rate always defaults to 44/16? If you're in the record standby mode, which you are when you press record once, then you use the arrows to increase or decrease the sampling rate. If you choose something else, by design or mistake, then I'd like to know if it stays there even after you switch it off? If it doesn't, then even better, since I'd want to know where I was in the selection. Also, is the autogain setting a switch on the machine? Does the volume and recording level always default to fifty when you turn the machine on? The threads for the tripod are contained on the machine. Can you get an adaptor to fit this onto a microphone stand, and if so, is it included inside the accessories pack which Zoom also sells? Thanks a lot. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder
Listen to the review at http://www.blindcooltech.com and I'm sure you'll find that Neil mentions that once the sampling rate etc is set then it stays put until you change it. On 20/09/2010, at 8:44 AM, Matthew Bullis wrote: I wrote to Neal after his review debuted, but didn't get a response. I wonder if when you turn off the recorder, if the sampling rate always defaults to 44/16? If you're in the record standby mode, which you are when you press record once, then you use the arrows to increase or decrease the sampling rate. If you choose something else, by design or mistake, then I'd like to know if it stays there even after you switch it off? If it doesn't, then even better, since I'd want to know where I was in the selection. Also, is the autogain setting a switch on the machine? Does the volume and recording level always default to fifty when you turn the machine on? The threads for the tripod are contained on the machine. Can you get an adaptor to fit this onto a microphone stand, and if so, is it included inside the accessories pack which Zoom also sells? Thanks a lot. 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
The Zoom H1 audio recorder
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. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
