I agree 100% with you on the Olympus models. I have several; they substantially changed the way the Olympus recorders are laid out after the Dm-520. Poor ergonomic design and keyboard layout for the 620; don’t have a DM-7.
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 4:43 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone System H6 I always though the issue of pausing with the Zoom H1 to be people making a mountain out of a molehill, I got round this by remember two things that the Zoom H1 did. Firstly when recording, if you pressed the “Record” button again the recorder would effectively pause if you like, meaning the recorder would go into “Standby” mode awaiting a further button press so therefore if you pressed the “Record” button again the recording would resume though to a new file, not a big deal in my opinion given one could easily deal with multiple files in a Sound editor, I do have a computer do I not? <smile>. The other way of handling the problem is to insert marks into the file therefore defining sections, this can be done by pressing the “Play” button at the appropriate time where you wish to insert a mark, you might insert a mark at the beginning of each paragraph you’re reading aloud or when the sound of a door opening happens etc. The marks are recognised by Audio Editing software such as Sound Forge and Amadeus Pro. Yep, I like the Olympus Recorders but I do feel that the speech is a bit of a conflict, I appreciate the efforts Olympus have made by including the speech but in some ways its a little unintuitive given that it can take a little while to find what you want in the menu system, set up the actions to perform and so on. Regardless of that I do appreciate that the speech system may make a difference to some people and my only advice to Olympus is to cut down on those features that are just add-ons for want of a better description, things like Daisy playback and so forth, stop worrying about those things and concentrate on the accessibility of the recorders themselves. I love the DM4 though not very in love with the DM7 for some reason though I’m in no doubt that it too is a damn good product, I think its the way the DM7 does things that has me a little annoyed with it. > On 19 Oct 2015, at 5:27 AM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > True that. My beaf with the H1 was you can't pause the recording. But it > seemed cool and the price seemed fair. Yeah the speech ain't accurate perhaps > on the DMs and the LSs that do talk, but it's enough to keep you on the > strait and narrow. Lol. Na man I'd get confused. Even with the DMs when I > axidentally shut the speech off I got lost. Well in the menus anyways. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 10:02 AM > To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone System H6 > > The fact is that the Olympus recorders - DM Series I’m thinking of in > particular here - are in a different league to this recorder. > > The H6 obviously doesn’t have Voice guidance so you’d have to learn how to > navigate though - given my experience with Zoom products - I doubt whether > this would be too difficult a task. > > It should be remembered that the voice guidance on Olympus products is far > from perfect anyway, this has been pointed out to the list many times. > > The price is another factor when thinking about the H6, its a recorder really > designed for production purposes, what I appreciate of course but for some it > may be total overkill. > > I kept the Zoom H1 for 2 very good reasons, quick start - starts recording at > the press of a button - and ease of use - just not much to the recorder at > all -. > > The H1 lacks a fancy feature set but if you’re just recording and want a damn > good recording a low price then its a very good choice well worth considering > in my view, I know of people who use the H1 for all sorts of bits and pieces, > from live recording to logging to plain old dictation. > > >> On 19 Oct 2015, at 12:54 AM, john riehl <realma...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> This recorder sounds good – the question I have is, how accessible are >> all these features? The DM family of Olympus recorders have talking >> voice guidance which makes most of their features easily accessible >> and programmable. Having all of these features on the Zoom H6 >> >> Is worthless if you can’t access them as a blind user. >> >> >> >> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >> Dane Trethowan >> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 9:49 AM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone >> System H6 >> >> >> >> I think the review I just sent to the list pretty well sums it up, any >> higher sampling frequency’s etc then may as well cary a battery pack about >> with you <smile>. >> >> >>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 12:27 AM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ah then yeah you're right. But then again they aren't really processing >>> much after all. They don't really run fully loaded software like an OS or >>> something like Sound Forge. All though 1 has to wander what they could be >>> made to do even with a CPU like that of an IOS device. I can't think of >>> nothing, but I'm sure the companies would. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>> Dane Trethowan >>> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:28 AM >>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone >>> System H6 >>> >>> Yep, I was talking about CPU power, for what they are - audio wise - all >>> those little recorders are beauties. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/18/2015 3:23 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: >>>> True that. If you mean CPU power. How ever, audio wise? Well the Zoom H6 >>>> and the older H4N sound to me as good and sadly along with this as hissy >>>> as the realtech audio on my old Enspireon 530 S desktop. Now you are >>>> correct about the DMs. But the LS the higher you go the better. The 14 >>>> sounds as cool as the 100. Very pro. No flor noise. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>>> Dane Trethowan >>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 11:22 PM >>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone >>>> System H6 >>>> >>>> We have to remind ourselves that Zoom and Olympus recorders don't have the >>>> processing power of a Personal Computer or even an iPhone <smile>. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/18/2015 2:18 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: >>>>> True that. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>>>> Dane Trethowan >>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 10:56 PM >>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone >>>>> System H6 >>>>> >>>>> Still, plenty enough flexibility for most situations. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10/18/2015 1:28 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: >>>>>> Yeah no the H6 is back to 96 KHZ. >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>>>>> Dane Trethowan >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 8:40 PM >>>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable >>>>>> Microphone System H6 >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah, I don't think the Zoom H6 goes up to 192KHZ sampling frequency, >>>>>> interesting as the Zoom H1 does however the H1 only supports 2 channel >>>>>> recording so that may account for something. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/18/2015 11:37 AM, Hamit Campos wrote: >>>>>>> Isn't this thing epic? You can hook 6 mikes to it. I guess you can do 6 >>>>>>> different tracks. Yeah you know where I'm going, I'd then make them 5.1 >>>>>>> surround. There's a new 1 called the F8 that will take 8 mikes. Which >>>>>>> means 7.1. Oh and what makes that 1 even more epic, is that's the first >>>>>>> I've heard of anyways from Zoom that will do 192 thousand KHZ. Way too >>>>>>> epic dude. 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