Shopping for usb mic for violin

[Shadow_7]

Price wise the portable recorders are a steal. You get a mini-computer, two mics, two preamps, two converters all for the price of what you'd pay for a single mic. Without all the reliability issues of traditional computers. Not the highest end of gear, but a far cry from most consumer grade gear. And you can use them as MP3 players when not recording. And some of them double as USB soundcards.

 

[shindb81]

Never have imagined portable recorders would have better mics than my camcorder mic.
I'm looking now at the Zoom H2

 

[dgatwood]

Never have imagined portable recorders would have better mics than my camcorder mic.
I'm looking now at the Zoom H2

The lack of motor noise from the camcorder makes a big difference, assuming you're capturing the sound on tape. If you're doing a live capture over FireWire or something, then it probably won't sound that different, and your problem is probably placement.