Mike Rivers wrote:
Googling turns up pretty much zip.
If you're talking about the Zoom, nobody has had a chance to hate it
because it hasn't shipped to anyone yet.
Apparently a small early shipment went out and I found some people that
had units, in particular a guy who administers a Zoom forum.
http://www.2090.org/zoom/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=6906
but these were mostly people discussing the plusses and minuses of the
4 track capabilities, which I would be ignoring anyway. So naturally
I came here to see if any r.a.p. people were early adopters.
One cool thing about the Zoom, though you probably wouldn't have much
need for it, is that it apparently can stream audio out its USB port
right from the input, so you can record on an external hard drive.
That's important to me (if there's no internal drive) because I want to
be able to record many hours at a stretch without having to worry about
re-using the memory cards.
There was a lot of enthusiasm about the M-Audio Micro Track when it was
initially released, but I talked with several folks at the AES show
last weekend who said that the bloom is off the rose and it really
doesn't sound all that great and it's still buggy even after a few
firmware updates. But then not everybody runs into the bugs (depends on
what you have to do) and not everyone needs great fidelity. So it might
work out OK if you need to get something fairly promptly.
Thanks, Mike, that's interesting stuff, both about the Zoom streaming
and the MicroTrack's updates not making it the go-to unit.