I didn't mean the subject to sound as bad as it did, but I have always been a tascam fan. First owning a DR-100, and now the DR-680. Recently, while on location at a dirt track race, my DR-100 manifested a few problems.
First off, while I love the wheels for setting channel levels independantly, the nut which holds the potentiometers in place works itself loose. It happened on a DR-100 I borrowed and it happened on mine. No big deal except you need a really long thin set of needle nose pliers to tighten the nut. Worst was the right internal directional mic failing. The omnis work, the mic inputs work, but either a connection or the mic element itself failed.
Luckly, my DP had an H4n, and I used that for my stereo ambience, and actually used it, and my ME-80, as a mocked-up MS rig and captured some really great racing sounds. I took the line out from the H4n to two channels on my DR-680 and, along with my mono feed from the ME-80 really had me digging what I could get with a MS system.
So, with my DR-100 crapped out, and limited budget, I bought the new H2n. No, I don't think I'll be plugging mics into it, but in about 3 weeks I'll be finding out about how these internal mics can handle a constant 100 db noise level at the track, taking the line out from the two foward mics (which can output as a figure 8 pair, provided you invert one of the mics) to the DR-680, as well as seeing what it can do on it's own as a handly MS rig for high noise environments. More to come.
First off, while I love the wheels for setting channel levels independantly, the nut which holds the potentiometers in place works itself loose. It happened on a DR-100 I borrowed and it happened on mine. No big deal except you need a really long thin set of needle nose pliers to tighten the nut. Worst was the right internal directional mic failing. The omnis work, the mic inputs work, but either a connection or the mic element itself failed.
Luckly, my DP had an H4n, and I used that for my stereo ambience, and actually used it, and my ME-80, as a mocked-up MS rig and captured some really great racing sounds. I took the line out from the H4n to two channels on my DR-680 and, along with my mono feed from the ME-80 really had me digging what I could get with a MS system.
So, with my DR-100 crapped out, and limited budget, I bought the new H2n. No, I don't think I'll be plugging mics into it, but in about 3 weeks I'll be finding out about how these internal mics can handle a constant 100 db noise level at the track, taking the line out from the two foward mics (which can output as a figure 8 pair, provided you invert one of the mics) to the DR-680, as well as seeing what it can do on it's own as a handly MS rig for high noise environments. More to come.
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