The Zoom h4 internal microphones are far superior to the LS10, and the
mic preamp is a lot quieter as well.
It has no internal memory, but you can use HC SD. Technically, thee
limit is 4GB, but I've heard of people using 8 and 16GB cards as well.
I've personally never used anything bigger than 4gb with mine.
It records at 44,100, 48 and 96 khz uncompressed, at either 16 or 24-bit
wav, as well as any bitrate from 48 to 320 or even VBR mp3. And, it has
one of the best mp3 encoders I've ever heard on anything, including
hardware and software.
I use Lame, which sounds great, but sometimes I actually have used my
Zoom h4 as an mp3 encoder with a conversion job in the file menu, rather
than using Lame on a PC.
The h4 also doubles as a 4-track recorder (which records two tracks at a
time), and an asio capable external sound card for low latency
applications, like softsynths.
It's kind of obvious that it was designed with the musician in mind, but
it's a good all-around recorder that does way too muchfor the price, and
way too well.
The Edirol r09hr seems to have improved the mic preamp a lot since the
r09 (which, in my opinion, isn't hard to do as noisy and unshielded as
that thing was), and external microphones, particularly plugin powered
ones, will perform quite well on that unit. But, unfortunately, the
internal microphones are still very boring. They sound nice, but the
idea of slamming two omni-directional microphones right next to each
other isn't conducive to a stereo image... it's more like a stereo effect.
Scott Chesworth wrote:
Seeing as we're comparing Edirol and Olympus to some extent, the
Olympus LS-10 is definitely worth a look. Records uncompressed at
44.1/48 K, 2gb internal memory and it's also expandable with sd,
better build quality than the R09, less of a battery hog, less
abbrasive AGC, very decent mp3/WMA encoding should you find yourself
running low on memory and still needing to snag a recording, pretty
quiet with external mics and the internal stereo ones aren't too
shabby though they do lack a bit down low maybe. It won't talk to you
like most of the other Olympus's, but neither will an Edirol or a
Zoom. It's all subjective of course, but for me the LS-10 was the
best for the price range, which surprised me at the time because I'd
never really heard an Olympus and been impressed until then.
Hth someone...
Scott
On 1/16/09, matt d <[email protected]> wrote:
A good pair of sterio microphones are the Sound Professonal microphones.
They are only $78 US and are cliiped inside your ear.
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