The 40 has all but replaced my 60 which will probably be sitting around for a while until I can afford some quality shotgun mics.

I have your typical home studio with protools and editing/mastering software.. with expensive mics and such.. and I to never use all that anymore

Mics are quite sensitive.

Menus are easy to use, great mics and amp, very well made.

The internal mics are adjustable, the interface is easy to use, the battery life is long and the batteries are common AA and easy to replace on location

i totally got just that.the mics on this are amazing, and noiseless (meaning there is no background

We wanted to hear how the all new Tascam DR-40 performed with a variety of popular mics

The onboard mics are good quality and very useful, but I recommend external mics of good quality for the best audio recordings

The impressive specs of this device are pretty well known, like the very nice mics, full-size XLR inputs, stereo, dual stereo, and 4-track recording

, I'll still probably use you for multi-tracking, but being on the road so much I can't afford your frail little mics to fudge up my flow

It is very easy to use, mics are great for interviews and basic recordings

My only issue is the internal mics, while crystal clear in terms of quality, can sometimes be lacking on the gain side of things.

Full 24-bit WAV capabilities, with two stereo recording streams, one from the Tascam's mics, and one for the two mic inputs on the bottom

The adjustable mics (which sound amazing for the price this is) and the additional input slots are fantastic

The internal preamp is very quiet, the mics on acoustic grand piano are very dynamic, produce excellent detail and have what appears to be a very wide neutral frequency response

I bought two cheap dynamic mics to capture the speech of my two subjects, I recorded in dual mode, just in-case

The mics look like solid metal, but they're cheap plastic as well

The onboard mics are incredibly sensitive, which is great if you need to record a field mouse at twenty yards, but it gets annoying if you try to use the onboard mics for anything practical as the mics pick up EVERYTHING, even whips of air from a ceiling fan six feet away

The internal mics that come on this thing work better than some of my expensive external mics

The internal mics are pretty good

I bought two cheap dynamic mics to capture the speech of my two subjects, I recorded in dual mode, just in-case

I would recommend purchasing a wind screen, as the mics are quite hot and pick up the slightest breeze.

The built in microphones are better than certain cheap shotgun mics you'll find here

The external mics are hideous as

You can’t touch the unit at all while recording without the mics picking up recording-ruining noise.

The onboard mics are plenty adequate for a scratch track to get an idea down in a hurry, but pairing this with a couple discreet microphones using the two XLR inputs on the bottom really brings out the best in this unit

The internal mics are excellent, and they alone can get a very solid stereo recording.

The mics are more sensitive than the DR-05 and the dual positions they offer is a great plus

Its also a rugged box, really good internal mics, and excellent battery life.

This versatile recorder allows me to hook up (via XLR inputs) external mics, but the included mics are excellent alone

I was using a DR-60MkII for my DSLR audio recording with an XM-55 and a couple other inexpensive mics and getting lousy results, mainly because of the mic quality.

The mics are extremely sensitive to wind

With good mics and pres

It has fantastic sound, the mics are great, and the ability to rotate them into 2 different patterns makes way for numerous possibilities as a Sound Designer

The internal mics actually do sound pretty good, but it's great to have the option of adding whatever external mic you desire or even plugging a mixer into it

Although if you drop the H4n the poor little onboard mics are probably screwed, at least the DR-40 has some little roll bar things to help protect them on top

I experimented with field recording a bit but the mics are very sensitive so wind sock will be a near future purchase or something I will try to make myself

As far as sound performance, I was blown away the second I hooked up my headphones, the onboard mics are cardioid mics that have comparable quality to higher end recording microphones I've used

For the price, the internal mics are fantastic

terrible-Onboard mics are not bad!Cons:-UI is atrocious

Sound quality is excellent, and with a couple good mics you get professional sounding audio at a reasonable price

I want to like it, from reviews I

I realized I would need an external audio recorder that had XLR inputs and phantom power for hooking up my Behringer C-2 microphones (small and easy to work with in the field)

This doesn't sound like much; after all, I think that correlates to moving back about 1 meter during recording (presuming sound moves at 343m/s, the delay of .003 sec corresponds to ~1 meter)