Well, I bought mine directly from Hong Kong, to try to save $30. The manual (and the rest of the literature) that they sent is all in Japanese, lol. So I guess it's good that I'd downloaded the PDF already, haha.

I don't think there is a way to adjust the EQ on the recorder. The video editor I use (kdenlive) doesn't have very good audio editing facilities, so I think I will have to load it into Audacity and fix the EQ before I fire up the video editor. An extra step, but oh well. :3