Inflexible file hierarchySpeaking of files.. the system uses an impersonal file system that cannot be renamed or made more human-friendly.

File naming (another UI complaint

Power up time is a bit slow and deleting large files takes time

This unit records pristine, clear wav files and is a super solid build.

Easy file management for verses, choruses, etc

All you can do is get your SD card, copy files via card reader and work with files this way

Some users online have reportedly been able to recover the files, but I was unable to do

It scrambles the file on the editor

It is easy to bring my extremely portable Zoom recorder and hook the sound booth's XLR and quickly record a nice broadcast quality audio file without using the tv studio resources

Produces excellent quality sound files without having the best acoustics to work with (hanging in the living room recording In House Jazz sessions)

Whether its freesing while turning on, or delivering useless corrupt files.

Also, if your battery dies while recording, you lose the file entirely

It is super simple to set up an audio file to record, and to dump it into a computer for editing

Later in post,I download the audio files via firewire of the sound bytes and then lay in the visuals captured with the video camera

Here's the bad part:When the H4n dies while recording, it will corrupt the files on the SD card

Sound files are not large, so an 8 GB or 16 GB card will suffice for most applications.

but if you lose a file try looking in all the folders