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I was in need of a good audio recorder to conduct a field interview for our historical society. My old recorder was failing and could not be trusted to fulfill this task. I researched the internet for a quality digital recorder that could stand up to the rigorous day to day audio downloads with lots of storage capacity. The Zoom had all those features plus more. After purchasing the recorder I used it over a week of extensive interviews and found that it stood up to my professional needs without any unexpected issues arising. The audio quality using a lavaliere microphone was superb and crisp. I did have to purchase a 16 gb sandisk as none came with the recorder after it arrived in the mail. I highly recommend this recorder to anyone wanting to do professional field interviews or sound bites for newscasts.Read full review
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A great little recorder with excellent features, easy to operate, good quality recordings. Construction seems a bit flimsy, and I'm especially concerned that the on/off switch may not hold up with repeated use. I hope I'm wrong, but it's worth the risk at a good price, especially since this refurbished model has the normal warranty. Overall, I'm impressed, and I'm planning to do a home-based CD recording project with it.
This little piece of audio magic should be a must in every musician's kit. The best lesson is listening to yourself play with others. This device allows you to do that easily. The quality of the recording is CD or better; it is adjustable up or down, depending on what you need and how much space is on the SD card. It does 2 channel stereo with either a 90 or 120 degree X-Y spread, or 2 channel/4 channel full surround. Condenser mics all around for crystal clear highs. It also has a 3.5mm mini-jack line input so you can run a whole mixing panel into it and ignore the built-in mics. The controls are not that difficult to understand and it's just easy as can be to use. Mine finally gave up the ghost after 6 years of heavy usage, and H2 kindly replaced it with the newer H2N, which has M-S recording as well, runs 4-5 times longer on the same batteries, and is less fragile that the older model. A definite upgrade. I highly recommend this unit or the newer H2N to anyone who wants to record anything.Read full review
When I first heard about the H2 recorder, I thought, "How can something as small as an electric razor be any good?" Then, I read reviews from delighted owners, especially those that used their H2s professionally to make stereo or quad sound files. I was not disappointed. I got crisp, clean, sound files with no room or atmospheric noise and I went and stood among the delighted, and was happy to share my results with them. I bought naother one because a singer friend of mine paid an arm and a leg for one hour sound studio recording and after an hour was shown into the street. She said that if she had longer she could have got the sounds she wanted. I recommended the H2 and bought it for her. She can record to her hearts content and then edit the sound files, and is at this time in production on a CD to share her talent with the world. If you are serious about the quality of your sound files and do not have access to EMI's set-up, then get an H2 and join the professionals for the price of a night out! Ronnie Bray www.yorkshiretales.comRead full review
I ordered a nice headphone set, quality Sony; and with a wooden box from A.C. Moore's , fabricated a nice enclosure for everything, including a separate wooden box for the H2 Zoom recorder. I also bought rechargeable batteries, charger, and an 8 Mbyte memory card. I record all the week's music for two different choral groups. With a note book that fits in the box, I make a note of which "track" which song is on...one stops recording at each change of sheet music, and the recorder starts a new "track". Pretty much anywhere you set the thing it picks everything up, and will also automatically adjust for proper loudness level for a good recording! Superb quality. The box for it all has a 1 1/4 inch hole into which I set a 1 1/4" dowel about 3 1/2 ft tall, and the little plastic "stand" for the recorder is screwed to a wooden block on top, so the recorder has its own stand / monopod, actually, and is always at a good height. It is an amazing little recorder...I cannot imagine finding a better one.The only complaint I heard about it concerned the tiny LCD screen. One does have to squint, but only when replaying tracks. The small size of the screen helps conserve power. You set the 'backlight' of the screen to turn off in 15 seconds also, which conserves power. The two AA batteries will record for a good hour, hour and a half.Of course, my little suitcase wooden box, with 1/4" poplar partitions, hold everything perfectly in place, and the whole thing carried in something the size of a cigar box, or a little larger. So think of it...a top drawer recording studio in a small, lightweight box. Can't beat that at all. The price is most reasonable for such quality. One does need a nice table saw to cut the pieces for the box. I can show photos of it via frank-elliott@hotmail.comRead full review
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