The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160055   Message #3794551
Posted By: Mr Red
09-Jun-16 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: ZOOM H1 one day deal £59.99 - Amazon UK
Subject: RE: ZOOM H1 one day deal £59.99 - Amazon UK
cheapest seems to be £90 ish now.
And personally I would stretch to £114 and get the H2N. It has 4 microphones and it thus can compute as a shotgun microphone or record all 4 directions for later processing if you want. And many permutations between, even act as a tuner or metronome (which doesn't appear on the recording!)
I have an H2N and use a back-up covert(ish) recorder which, when you do the comparisons, is startling. In a room with many distracting voices, the shotgun setting is better than you recall (or expected). The back-up recording being unobtrusive but simple has more of the intrusion. Both produce mono, but in my case I am only interested in speech and one person.
About the only caveats are 1) the battery cover. If you hold the device too tight it rubs at the cover's joints and sounds terrible. I hold it gently! 2) Ending recordings takes a second or so to consolidate so if you press restart too quickly it doesn't start. This is fairly universal with recorders that can do justice to (say) music).