Author: DougR
Date: 2010-10-17 01:48
Carl, I use my Zoom H2 to record lessons (and transcribe notes later), and have also used it in the past as an analog-to-digital converter, which it seems to do just fine. Lately I've been using the Zoom H2 for some spoken-word audio I've been working on, and I use it in "record ready" mode to give me a "cue" signal through my headphones, meaning I can listen to myself as the microphone hears me, without recording, and then make adjustments in real time based on what I hear.
It strikes me that any of the currently available digital recorders might allow one to do the same thing with one's practicing, namely listen through headphones to the signal the mike in FRONT of you is picking up, and hear in real time what to adjust, and how your adjustments sound.
Carl, I think the microphone setup on the Zoom is damn good; no external mike necessary. As for editing software, if you're on a Mac there's a nifty pair of programs called Audio Hijack and Fission, available for around $60 from Rogue Amoeba software. Fission is a modest but highly useful editing program that does everything I need to do. Audio Hijack is a recorder that, get this, records ANY audio signal your computer can play: from youtube, from podcasts, from streaming media, DVDs, internet TV programs, embedded sound files in a website--anything. You can also (though I haven't) set it up to record podcasts at a later time.
If you have the Zoom, you don't necessarily need Audio Hijack--it's just SO useful.
Good luck and HAVE FUN!
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