With my recording hobby shifting from studio to more on-location work with local bluegrass bands, I'm looking at the aforementioned two recorders. I'm going to try the Zoom out (the campus library has several to loan out) but won't get an opportunity to try out the Tascam so I'm wondering if any of you have thoughts on either or both? I'll be using three condenser mics (two for the room and one for the group to gather around), so the ability to deliver phantom power reliably is an issue as well as pure sound quality and ruggedness. I plan to use the internal mic pre's to keep it simple plus I'm betting they're better than those on any Mackie that's small enough to cart around anyways.
Ergonomically, I lean towards the Tascam as the inputs on the Zoom strike me as a design that might lead to a trip hazard plus I like having individual channel outs in case I ever wanted to mix directly from it. For now, though, I'll be loading the files from the card onto my Macbook and mixing with Adobe Audition (it came on my computer) through a Tascam UH-7000 converter to my 2 track reel to reel plus keeping archive copies of the final mixes on the computer.
Thoughts? Thanks!
Ergonomically, I lean towards the Tascam as the inputs on the Zoom strike me as a design that might lead to a trip hazard plus I like having individual channel outs in case I ever wanted to mix directly from it. For now, though, I'll be loading the files from the card onto my Macbook and mixing with Adobe Audition (it came on my computer) through a Tascam UH-7000 converter to my 2 track reel to reel plus keeping archive copies of the final mixes on the computer.
Thoughts? Thanks!