Another vote for the Zoom H4 or H2. I have the H4, which can theoretically do more stuff, although I find the four track mixing to be really complicated on the Zoom H4, and prefer to load the files into Audacity and do the tweaking there. I almost wish I'd gotten the H2 - simpler and smaller, and the quality is just as good or better than the H4. One good thing about the H4 is that if you would rather play guitar and sing at the same time (as I do)you can plug in the guitar, and sing into a microphone, and then you can still have a separate instrumental and vocal track, so you can adjust the volume of the instrument to suit the voice, or vice versa, in order to get the mix you want.