Um. Me just dumb musician, not know bits. But I do remember there are limitations to 4 track mode; one can record only using 44.1kHz sampling, which I gather is not as good as the 48 kHz and 96 kHz sampling one can use in stereo recording mode. Also, one can only record 1 or 2 tracks at a time, which does not bother me as I am normally not recording 4 people at a time, but which some folks find a serious limitation.
I am perhaps seduced partly by the fact that until the H4 came along, I had no overdubbing capability; I could record what I could sing and play in one pass and that was it. So I'm quite charmed by the prospect of recording multiple parts, and while I kind of wish I could do it in mp3 format to save space, I got the 2GB chip, which ought to be enough for most outings.
For what it's worth, the H4 in 4 track mode sounds fine to my uneducated ears, on the 40$ earphones I use, and is easy to take along on a car ride or a plane flight to a con or song circle, or someone else's house to record :-)
One feature of 4 track mode that I like is the internal mixer for recording that lets me set pan and volume on the recorded tracks, which is helpful sometimes for recording the last track or two, and for evaluating the final product so far; for real mixing I'm probably going to use GarageBand, which came free with my Mac. I tried Audacity once and couldn't get it to work for some reason (don't remember what the problem was) and GarageBand has been doing what I need, with the only downside being that it writes the final file to iTunes as AIFF, and I then have to convert to mp3 in iTunes. But I can do that.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't end up with an H4--I remember your post about it; that was part of what got me looking at it in the first place. I guess I got the impression from that that you were actually planning to get one.
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Date: 2007-08-21 01:17 pm (UTC)I am perhaps seduced partly by the fact that until the H4 came along, I had no overdubbing capability; I could record what I could sing and play in one pass and that was it. So I'm quite charmed by the prospect of recording multiple parts, and while I kind of wish I could do it in mp3 format to save space, I got the 2GB chip, which ought to be enough for most outings.
For what it's worth, the H4 in 4 track mode sounds fine to my uneducated ears, on the 40$ earphones I use, and is easy to take along on a car ride or a plane flight to a con or song circle, or someone else's house to record :-)
One feature of 4 track mode that I like is the internal mixer for recording that lets me set pan and volume on the recorded tracks, which is helpful sometimes for recording the last track or two, and for evaluating the final product so far; for real mixing I'm probably going to use GarageBand, which came free with my Mac. I tried Audacity once and couldn't get it to work for some reason (don't remember what the problem was) and GarageBand has been doing what I need, with the only downside being that it writes the final file to iTunes as AIFF, and I then have to convert to mp3 in iTunes. But I can do that.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't end up with an H4--I remember your post about it; that was part of what got me looking at it in the first place. I guess I got the impression from that that you were actually planning to get one.