 20070316 Zoom H4
I decided that I want to collect sounds, so I asked Justin to suggest a portable device to help me. Following his recommendation, I purchased the Zoom H4 from Sweetwater Sound.Man, it's cool. It records MP3 straight to flash memory. The sound quality is so good, I've already once mistaken it for the real thing. Listen to the first official recording I made. It starts with me walking down the tunnel to the L subway platform, approaching some bucket drummers below. Listen to the very end, and hear me approached by one of the paranoid performers! 6
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Santa said... haha, why do people get so weird about stuff like that? It happens to me all the time as well. The sound quality was great, however it looks like a taser.. 4:39 AM Nick said... That is seriously good sound quality. I thought the drummer was right here on my desk. Approx how much does it weigh? 7:34 AM holtetboards said... The stereo sound on that thing is incredible. I wonder if this is what NPR field reporters walk around with. 10:55 AM Everett White said... The quality is stunning! Hmmm, now you've got me thinking... "I'm not laughing, I'm serious!" 11:23 AM Andrew Estel said... I have a really similar device made by M-Audio that I use to record not only out-and-about sounds but also performances of my works. It's also great for converting all of my Judy Collins LPs to mp3. Anyway, if you like the idea of integrating sounds like that into music, check out the piece Detour (http://louisville.edu/music/localresources/audio/John%20Gibson/Detour.mp3) by one of my professors here at IU, John Gibson (http://john-gibson.com/) 1:05 PM Everett White said... So I meandered my way to Sweetwater's new HQ today to check things out and came across the H4. I remembered your blog post, and subsequently bought it on your recommendation. Thanks Zach! 10:33 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |