Prompted by this thread I went out and got a Zoom H2 and after half an evening of getting acquainted I'm going to have a whale of a time with it. Very very easy to use. I sat and recorded half a dozen songs and tunes with it on the coffee table and it sounds much better than I thought it would. Very compact so I'll probably end up carrying it with me pretty much everwhere and easy enough to sit in a quiet corner at work and have a practice at lunchtime.

On Saturday I have a practice with bass, cuple of guitars and a fiddle in the afternoon which I'm going to try it out to see how it goes and a session in the pub in the evening where we'll see how it gets on.

So far I'm dead impressed with it.

Thanks for the thread.