Thanks Fran. That helps a lot in eliminating some of my H6 concerns. It's nice to know that the built in Mics are part of the overdubbing capabilities.
As far as I know the H6 has only very basic overdub features which is a real shame.
For anyone trying to make a similar decision I found the following buyer feedback somewhere ... you have to take it as is ... but the buyer appears to have owned an H4n (not Pro) and 'upgraded' to an H6 only to be disappointed with the basic overdubbing/multitracking abilities.
Quote:
The following H4n features are missing from the H6:
1) The ability to go to any point in a recorded project when overdubbing to fix mistakes, or add a new overdubbed part anywhere within the song. On the H6 you can only start at the beginning of a song and overdub the entire song or stop it somewhere within the song. There is no ability to move to any point in the song. The only buttons that work in overdub mode are the track selector buttons to choose your track, the record and stop buttons.
2) The ability to punch in and punch out of record at pre-determined spots on the timeline in overdub mode either manually or automatically via pre-programming.
3) The ability to use track markers or A/B repeat when in overdub mode.
4) The ability to assign any recorded file to any available track for playback. The lack of this feature forces you to physically switch the mic or instrument being recorded to a different track input when overdubbing to allow simultaneous playback of recorded overdubs.
5) The inclusion of 50 editable effects, including reverb, delay, phase shifter, flanger, wah-wah, pitch shift, and a number of guitar and bass amp simulators that could be applied to tracks recorded in Multi-track mode. 47 of the 50 effects that were included on the H4 were removed from the H6. The compressor, limiter and low-cut filter are the only effects from the H4n that remain on the H6.
6) The ability to manage and delete track marks. On the H6 you can only view a list of track markers, but you are not able to do anything about them, except add more.
7) The ability to delete a recorded "take". A "take" is a concept of the H6, not on the H4n. On the H6 it refers to multiple recordings on the same track. There is no way to delete them once they have been recorded.
8) The ability to delete any recorded track.
9) The ability to rename recorded tracks.
10) The ability to even see the names of the recorded track files on the H6 is now gone.
11) The ability to playback any .wav or .mp3 file. The H6 can only play back the files it creates, or at least ones that use its naming conventions. You can get around items 7-10 by hooking a USB cable between the H6 and a computer and setting the H6 to SD Reader mode, which makes it look like an external drive to the computer. You can then view, rename or delete track files from the computer. However, renamed files will no longer be playable on the H6. Renaming and deleting of recorded files could be done on the H4n itself, without the need to connect to a computer.
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Personally not having effects is no problem since the effects were only available for recording (and got recorded onto the track!) ... you could not use them to monitor playback. Which would have been nice as a bit of reverb in the monitor sometimes helps playing/singing etc.
Also, point 4 is already well documented so no surprise.