While at the Portable Media Expo this past weekend, we head the pleasure of being neighbours with the guys from Samson. They make audio equipment, if you’ve never heard of them. In fact, my best microphone is a Samson C03 (they have a USB version now…mine is the original XLR). This weekend they were showing off their latest gadget, the H4 Handy Recorder:
The Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder fits in your palm and is ideal for recording live musical performances, interviews, podcasts, meetings, classes and seminars. The H4 allows you to record 24-bit/96 kHz digital audio as well as in MP3 format with bitrates up to 320kbps.
I really wish I had one of these things back when I was doing BlogosphereRadio. Would have made life so much easier. Some of the features include:
- Two studio quality X/Y pattern condenser microphones for true stereo recording
- Two combination XLR-1/4-inch input jacks with phantom power
- Four hours of continuous recording operation from 2 AA batteries
- 128MB Secure Digital (SD) card included.
And there’s a bunch more too. The combination input jacks are a great idea. When I saw them, I was like “why didn’t anyone else think of that!”
Maybe I don’t want a Zune for Christmas after all?
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Thought combo jacks are cool. I have them on my Prosonus FireBox and my mixer.
Sony has a similar (but surely more expensive) <a href="http://www.insidehomerecording.com/?p=101">recorder</a>, and of course there are others without the XY mics from <a href="http://www.insidehomerecording.com/?p=171">M-Audio, Edirol, Marantz, etc.</a> — you can even <a href="http://www.insidehomerecording.com/?p=176">use your iPod</a>. But this Samson looks pretty slick, and I like that it uses SD.