I have an H2 which I haven't used a great deal yet, but it's going to start getting some heavy use this week. What I have recorded so far sounds pretty darned good and thoroughly beats the socks off the Panasonic portable cassette recorder I've used for years.

But on thing that has me gnashing my teeth is that I have searched about eleventy-fourteen dozen different web sites, including the Samson's (who makes the neat little contraption), trying to get some figures on the in-built microphones—and nuthin'! They talk a great deal about the versatility of the two mic/four mic/stereo/surround sound patterns available, but I would like to see some figures on such things as frequency response and such. No joy so far.

Anybody have any information on this or know where it can be looked up?

I do have a couple of pretty good condenser mics, one suitable for voice and the other suitable for "fast attack" acoustical instruments (such as a guitar), and one of the selling points of this boxed pair was that I read a chart of very impressive specifications on the mics (and they did throw in a pair of XLR cables and a shock-mount for each mic).

But it's the H2's mic specs I'd really like to see.

Don Firth

P. S. Also, I'm looking, gimlet-eyed, at info on the Zoom H4n (relatively new and a great improvement over the H4) because it has XLR mic inputs. On this one, I've been looking to see if it's possible, using the external mics, to shut off the built-in mics. And—is it possible, for example, to plug in one external mic and record a single track, or does one always have to record multiple tracks?

Anybody?