<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 02.10.2012, at 19:30, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">What do you guys have?</span></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Zoom H4n</div><div><br></div><div>cons: </div><div>- it's big and heavy</div><div>- hard to find a carrying case/bag that fits the recorder with a windscreen on the mics (some bags for camera-flashs work, I got a tamrac 5150 or some such number)</div><div>- door to battery compartment costs 10EUR to replace</div><div>- doesn't come with a wristband as it should</div><div>- print comes off from all the buttons after a few months of use. better learn it by heart until then.</div><div>- a bit tedious setting it from "mono mix" back to stereo again -- messed up a few recordings that way</div><div>- "Stop" button doesn't get you out of the menu</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pros: just read the marketing blah blah but this is what I like it for:</div><div><div>- works well on rechargable batteries (I use two sets that I usually charge over night, when I'm traveling I use about 1 set per day, sometimes more)</div></div><div>- XLR/jack in</div><div>- 4 track recording</div><div>- pretty good quality on the internal mics</div><div>- sturdy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>HTH;)<div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>