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The Zoom products have a lot of bells and whistles but the sound quality of the Sony products - such as Sony PCM-M10 or the pricier early version that Guth showed - is better. The ability to start recording and set level without going through any menus is very worth having, IMO. The typeface in some of the Zoom menus is too small for me to see clearly without a magnifying glass. Another option worth investigating if you want to do multi-tracking are the Tascam porta-studios.

I have a Zoom H4 and that is pretty good with some condenser mics and maybe preamp and mic stands yadda yadda. The quality is pretty good but all the cabling and equipment are a pain unless you are doing a bunch of recording at once, like an album. Recently I like using an iphone if I want a quick and dirty visual as well as audio record of how an arrangement went. For better audio quality I use a Sony PCM-M10 digital recorder, sometimes feeding it into a small Kodak video camera. The Sony PCM-M10 is a very decent piece of equipment and works really well as a standalone unit where you push a couple buttons to record and there is a thumb-wheel for setting the level (unlike most Zoom products, where you have to go through a fiddly menu system to set level): quick but surprisingly clean recording. It connects to a pc via usb and you can record direct to the pc through its very decent mics.

There is a guy who starts criticizing the wrong thing and then when people who actually know something call him out on it he starts calling them "apologists" and then it inevitably goes downhill into don't call me apologist, basher. Don't call me basher, apologist and after a while the moderators freeze it. Two or three times a year. Been going on for many years. It's trolling, really. If the person would just gird his loins and go to Bozeman and take the forking tour, so much ignorance would fall away and he would feel ashamed after years of name-calling.

Think about some music such as Happy Birthday and imagine you are a trumpet player. Work out some cool melody lines in your head. Then work them out on the guitar. Try to work out any musical lines that occur to you - snatches of old songs, etc. The thing is if you have not studied your positional major scales, you won't have any framework upon which to place these melodies so you'll continually be groping around looking for notes or memorizing some odd way. It's impossible to build upon because everything is a one-off. You must learn (and practice for a while at least) some major scale shapes at various positions on the neck. Also very helpful is learn to play the same chord at many positions on the neck. Hint: use the relative minor as a substitute. For example any voicing of Am7 will substitute for C. If you can play the chord in several spots, know a scale shape for each of those spots, you begin to know the patterns on your fingerboard.

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