Gadget lust sated for the moment

[mdlbear]

Having determined that my favorite local store, Guitar Showcase, doesn't have the Zoom H2, I went and ordered one from AMS. (GS did have several fascinating instruments in their consignment shop, but I've been assured by the flower_cat that she'll divorce me if I bring another home. Besides, I'm out of closet space.)

I also ordered a Rolls PM50S personal monitor. This is basically a headphone amplifier (which I need for the Delta 1010 I bought at GS's consignment shop a month and a half ago) with the ability to mix in the signal from a microphone, which it taps off without interfering with either the signal from the mic to the preamp, or the phantom power going the other way. (I checked the schematic, which was in the two-page manual AMS links to from the product page.) I'll probably get another eventually, though I'd like to find the one mentioned in the manual as having a battery compartment. Or maybe I'll just cobble one together from parts.

See this post for technical trade-offs. I don't expect to ever use it as a USB microphone or interface, or to multitrack with it. That's what the UA-25 is for. The H2 looks ideal for recording concerts, circles, and rehearsal sessions.

That reminds me: I have concert recordings from Baycon, Westercon and ConChord that I still have to split up and upload. Oops.

Comments

[hms42]

Please let us know how the Zoom H2 works. I am thinking of getting one of those for the local house and con open filks since that will like do what I want. (I can combine what it records with the regular microphone setup I use currently.)

Does it have the ability to run on ac power (or USB port) or must be battery only?

Harold

[mdlbear]

It comes with an AC adapter, and according to the tech support person I spoke to at Sampson will run off USB power as well.

[chaoswolf]

And not to mentionthere's probably still shipping to be done. Do I have to hand-write the labels for that ordo we have alabel printer w/ USPS labels available?

[mdlbear]

Even as I type I am working on printing labels using glabels and the HP inkjet, which produces very nice labels. I've already used it for hand-writable shipping labels, FRAGILE labels, and return-address labels; I've been spending the last couple of days learning how to use mail merge and doing the necessary data extraction. (It's an egregious hack at the moment, but it works.)