Hello there,
I've been out looking for a highly portable recorder. The plan is to take it everywhere and rely on its onboard inbuilt mics for taking sound samples to use afterwards for music production and some other sound related projects, so the inbuilt mics must be pretty okay for the size and the budget, and no need of xlr inputs.
I've been comparing mostly zoom h2n and Tascam DR-05v2 (although it seems that the real competitor with the DR-05 would be the zoom h1, I guess there's nothing from tascam between DR-05 and DR-40). I'm not really sure of which one's mics are better quality: for what I've been able to hear, I would say zoom h2n gets closer to a decent sound, but these conclusions just come from crappy youtube videos, so I would like to know if someone out there has any real experience and can recommend one over the other.
On the other hand, I've seen this pretty new Olympus LS-P4. It looks pretty neat, but there aren't a lot of reviews about the quality of the inbuilt mics. It's the newest and most expensive of the three of them (it gets to 199E), so would be nice to know if it's worth the price (DR05 is on 88E and h2n is around 130E). Is anyone owning one of them and can write some notes about it?
Thank you all,
cheers