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Ha! You beat me to it. --Josh Per Boysen wrote: >> On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Per Boysen wrote: >>> But the H4 is great bang for the buck as a field recorder IMO! > > >> On 11 nov 2006, at 02.29, RP Collier wrote: > >> Does it come with windscreens for the microphones? I did not notice >> that in the product details. > > Yes. A little "foam ball" to wrap over the two mics. Size between a > golf and tennis ball. > > >> How do you find the recording in terms of "handling"? Is it overly >> sensitive to handling vibration and sudden directional changes? > > As all sensitive microphones it is not wise to carry it by hand for > the best recording result. It comes with a bottom plate for a tripod, > but no tripod, and this is the way to place it if you want to make > serious recordings in hifi. The stereo mic seems to be very good! > > I will use mine a lot as a hand held field recorder when doing > interviews in noisy environments. Then I typically use the built-in > compressor and record directly to 128 kbps mp3. Back home I pop in the > USB cable and lift over the file to the Mac for listening writing it > out as text. I've been hauling my powerbook for years when doing field > interviews (set up Audio Hi-Jack with a low cut filter and Vintage > Warmer directly on the built-in mic iinput) and for me the H4's > portability is a huge pro. For example: I waited years before buying > an iPod before I thought there might come one with recording > capability - but as we know that never happened ;-) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > http://www.myspace.com/looproom > > > > > >