{"id":10,"date":"2013-04-19T23:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermartintaylor.com\/videoblog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-04-20T19:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:30:57","slug":"the-h6-zooms-response-to-the-tascam-dr-60d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"The H6: Zoom&#8217;s Response to the Tascam DR-60D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11 alignright\" alt=\"Zoom H6\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/theothermartintaylor.com\/videoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/text_img_37821-300x246.jpg?resize=300%2C246\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/text_img_37821.jpg?resize=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/text_img_37821.jpg?w=684&amp;ssl=1 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>It was only a couple of weeks ago that Tascam announced the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tascam.com\/product\/dr-60d\/\" data-blogger-escaped-target=\"_blank\">DR-60D field recorder<\/a>\u00a0that is designed with the enthusiast filmmaker in mind. I thought it was one of <a title=\"Top 3 Most Interesting Products at NAB 2013 for Guerrilla Filmmakers\" href=\"http:\/\/theothermartintaylor.com\/videoblog\/?p=1\" data-blogger-escaped-target=\"_blank\">the three most interesting products at NAB 2013<\/a>\u00a0but, no sooner than the buzz from NAB had began to die down than Zoom returns fire with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoom.co.jp\/news\/article\/548\" data-blogger-escaped-target=\"_blank\">\u00a0the announcement of the Zoom H6<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/event\/musikmesse\" data-blogger-escaped-target=\"_blank\">Musikmesse fair<\/a>\u00a0at Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>Details are\u00a0limited\u00a0but we can see that Zoom has designed the H6 with video applications in mind. Most excitingly it has four on-board, XLR\/TRS inputs, expandable to six with an optional, interchangeable XLR\/TRS head and it will record all six channels simultaneously and each channel has a dedicated, hardware, level control knob. That&#8217;s making the Tasam Dr-60D&#8217;s mere two XLR inputs seem a little\u00a0paltry by comparison. And that could be Zoom&#8217;s intention: you might have been just about to order the DR-60D but Zoom&#8217;s press release will give you pause &#8211; if you can wait a little longer, being able to record 6 channels from XLR at once could be worth your patience.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you need so many channels? Options. With 6 channels being able to lav and boom all the\u00a0talent\u00a0on set will give you so many more options back in the edit bay. Hopefully you&#8217;ll be able to input one mic into two channels set at different levels; one dialed back for safety but both from the same source.<\/p>\n<p>But this is just speculation as Zoom haven&#8217;t\u00a0announced a shipping date or price yet. If the H6 is adopted by enthusiast filmmakers with as much enthusiasm as they&#8217;ve taken to the H4 over the past few years then Zoom will have another huge hit on their hands. Of course this depends on them pricing the H6 correctly and getting it out to the market before Tascam do any serious damage to Zoom&#8217;s\u00a0fan-base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a couple of weeks ago that Tascam announced the\u00a0DR-60D field recorder\u00a0that is designed with the enthusiast filmmaker in mind. I thought it was one of the three most interesting products at NAB 2013\u00a0but, no sooner than the buzz from NAB had began to die down than Zoom returns fire with\u00a0the announcement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5,3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/text_img_37821.jpg?fit=684%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wVJR-a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}