Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:48 am I've thought about getting something like this just to keep next to the couch because that's where i do most of my mindless guitar playing that yields the most ideas that I forget as soon as I stand up. Be rad to just have this and a mic sitting on the side table to grab at a moments notice.

tommy wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:18 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:48 am I've thought about getting something like this just to keep next to the couch because that's where i do most of my mindless guitar playing that yields the most ideas that I forget as soon as I stand up. Be rad to just have this and a mic sitting on the side table to grab at a moments notice.

Seems like one of the Zoom handheld stereo recorders might even work for you.

tommy wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:18 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:48 am I've thought about getting something like this just to keep next to the couch because that's where i do most of my mindless guitar playing that yields the most ideas that I forget as soon as I stand up. Be rad to just have this and a mic sitting on the side table to grab at a moments notice.

Seems like one of the Zoom handheld stereo recorders might even work for you.

Kniferide wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 3:05 pm DO those allow for overdubbing? I want to be able to jam my harmony shreds.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:21 am

tommy wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:18 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:48 am I've thought about getting something like this just to keep next to the couch because that's where i do most of my mindless guitar playing that yields the most ideas that I forget as soon as I stand up. Be rad to just have this and a mic sitting on the side table to grab at a moments notice.

Seems like one of the Zoom handheld stereo recorders might even work for you.

They're pretty awesome. This was some virtual show that we did a while back and all the audio is recorded on a Zoom h4n using the two onboard mics, a kick mic into XLR1, and a mic pointed at the PA into XLR2. Not awful for recording tech morons in a very small practice room.

bishopdante wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:51 pm Bd + initial semi careful kept in a briefcase and not used to hammer nails work in W11 London postcode + H6 : six weeks.

Not moisture tolerant: microphones killed by 100% humidity, unit killed by liquid ingress & corrosion.

It also got dropped subsequently while dead, in its zoom-branded snug fitting case, from waist height, which knocked a corner in leaving a big hole, enabling the view into the interior of greenery. Moulded thermoplastic, probably not even ABS or nylon. The cat sat on it and jumped off. The way it broke, I suspected it had been designed to do that. I'll dig out some of the disassembled photos of the inside of the H6... it's bad.

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My hatred of zoom equipment comes from their '90s floor multi effects units which people insisted on using, and would turn up with a pile of intermittent ones asking if somebody could rebuild it reliable at any cost, and that they can't use something else, that is their sound.

Past that... my opinion is deliberately uneducated/inexperienced. I avoid it. I like zoom almost as much as I like Microsoft.

It's really cheap for what it does. That's because they do things like having no conformal coating on the motherboard of a location recorder. Built cheap to break fast. Featuristic while working.