Today my shiny new Zoom H2 arrived. It’s a pint-sized solution to the problem of mobile podcasting: a quadraphonic microphone, MP3 recorder, guitar tuner and analogue-to-digital device. I think this might be the best thing I’ve ever bought…ever.
Stef Lewandowski uses one when he records various bits of audio, and I knew that for the re-launch of my podcast this would be the piece of kit enabling me to be truly mobile. I’ve been carrying it around in its box all day today, showing it off to various people and just itching for a chance to try it out.
So after an extremely enjoyable bout of alcoholism with Danny Smith, Kevin Rapley et al, I turned it on, plugged my headphones in and rode the bus from Selly Oak back to my flat in…sort of Selly Oak, sort of Bournville, sort of Weoley Castle.
And here is the resulting audio. And by way of proving that nothing is perfect, I’ve had to convert this from the original WAV to MP3 on my PC because the unit’s conversion generated some unseemly artifacts (ie: nasty bits of noise). It does record straight to MP3 though, so I’ll give that a try at some stage.
But until then, please enjoy my journey from the high street to my front door preserved in beautiful stereo sound!
“Can you hear that lifelike knocking? It’s your neighbours complaining about the noise.”
There is something very eerie about the footsteps but the final minute or so where you reach the front door, scaled the flight of steps and then get welcomed by your cat is brilliant. Well, maybe I have gone a bit far there, it is more interesting than the rest of the audio capure.