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Doppelpat
Published on 07/01/08 at 14:41
Best value:
Excellent
- How long have you use it? For three months, especially for external desprises moods, by hand (type radio report, sound hunters, etc. ...). I always carry with me and uses it with the original pickups.
- What is so special that you like most and least? The best: I have always with me, the microphones are honest.
I especially like the microphones suspended: on all the others I tried, the MicroTrack, the Zoom H4, even the Nagra Ares, the microphones are handling noise strong enough, which makes the device very difficult to use hand on the ground. The Edirol is perfect for this: you really have to tap it for it to get along, and that's his biggest strength of competition (and oddly almost nobody talks about).
Cons: there is breath (but all these devices are about the same level of breath with the original pickups). The stereo a bit special internal microphones, but practical: the sounds are easily centered in the middle (voice) without unintended effects panoramic, but the extreme left and right are still more or less correctly returned.
- Have you tried many other models before buying it? The Nagra Ares M, the Zoom H4, the MAUDIO mircotrack with his little microphone T, Marantz PMD670, the Korg MR1. The Marantz is good, but it's not the same thing at all, and saturated with a sensitive microphone (which makes impossible the use of microphones condos reporting Sennheiser MKE-44P type, unless you put a external attenuator). The Nagra Ares is very good, and provided you have the microphone HQ, a perfect sound for such practices, but alas, it is very sensitive to noise microphones, and spends his time to pay attention to avoid sound of fingers on the device. The Korg MR1 is zero for the field: you can adjust the level with the wheel as channel by channel in a menu. The buttons for adjusting the volume entry arch are noisy MAUDIO tic, tic, tic, even with an external mic I'm sure they agree. All these devices are actually unsuitable for taking his hand.
- How would you rate the quality / price? Excellent.
- With experience, you do again this choice? ... I bought the new model (HR), and I test new arrivals (Marantz, Tascam). For listening on the net catches Comparative H2, I think he is doing very well, with a sound similar to the Edirol, open and fairly well defined (it is not Neumann anyway
. But not tested, and I fear again to the sounds of hand.
- What is so special that you like most and least? The best: I have always with me, the microphones are honest.
I especially like the microphones suspended: on all the others I tried, the MicroTrack, the Zoom H4, even the Nagra Ares, the microphones are handling noise strong enough, which makes the device very difficult to use hand on the ground. The Edirol is perfect for this: you really have to tap it for it to get along, and that's his biggest strength of competition (and oddly almost nobody talks about).
Cons: there is breath (but all these devices are about the same level of breath with the original pickups). The stereo a bit special internal microphones, but practical: the sounds are easily centered in the middle (voice) without unintended effects panoramic, but the extreme left and right are still more or less correctly returned.
- Have you tried many other models before buying it? The Nagra Ares M, the Zoom H4, the MAUDIO mircotrack with his little microphone T, Marantz PMD670, the Korg MR1. The Marantz is good, but it's not the same thing at all, and saturated with a sensitive microphone (which makes impossible the use of microphones condos reporting Sennheiser MKE-44P type, unless you put a external attenuator). The Nagra Ares is very good, and provided you have the microphone HQ, a perfect sound for such practices, but alas, it is very sensitive to noise microphones, and spends his time to pay attention to avoid sound of fingers on the device. The Korg MR1 is zero for the field: you can adjust the level with the wheel as channel by channel in a menu. The buttons for adjusting the volume entry arch are noisy MAUDIO tic, tic, tic, even with an external mic I'm sure they agree. All these devices are actually unsuitable for taking his hand.
- How would you rate the quality / price? Excellent.
- With experience, you do again this choice? ... I bought the new model (HR), and I test new arrivals (Marantz, Tascam). For listening on the net catches Comparative H2, I think he is doing very well, with a sound similar to the Edirol, open and fairly well defined (it is not Neumann anyway
. But not tested, and I fear again to the sounds of hand.