Zoom H2 Recorders Review
Zoom H2 Recorders Review
+ Many settings for recording quality. I use the device primarily to digitize records. I guess with 44.1 kHz sampling frequency and 24 bit resolution, and leave the result with LAME to convert to MP3 files. Apart from the somewhat low sensitivity to the line-in port and you get an excellent quality.
+ The mics are low noise and provide detailed shots.
+ Can be used immediately, without long study of the manual.
+ The support my request was answered within two days – and even understood my question, which nowadays is not obvious.
- I miss a Hold switch, which disables the controls (to prevent accidental activation).
- The fact that the settings on the SD card can be stored, is annoying if you use more than one card. Changes must then be repeated each time one uses a different card.
- The housing is really not very well made, but what I can get over.
- Even if 4 hours of recording time with a set of batteries as long appears, it is definitely too short. However, a small box of potters in the computer, so of course.
- Too bad that the power supply connector is polarized “left around.” Unlike most power supplies the positive pole is on the outer contact of the plug, not the inner.
From my perspective, the shortcomings of the device in relation to image quality and flexibility are negligible.
After several painful experiences with much more expensive models of other brands that could not hold more or less what the marketing department promised, I decided to buy the new Zoom H2. The following points were decisive for me:
Line-in available input, power with standard AA batteries, or batteries, so you not in the middle of nowhere stands and desperate for an outlet for his Charger looks to an environmentally harmful Li-ion battery recharging, available manual dowry possibility, clear display and logically structured menu and a good built-in microphone and low noise were other criteria.
All these things can easily satisfy the Zoom recorder and especially the last two points make even the 10x devices cost more partly appalling. You can tell that there were genuine practitioners at work and not bored engineers who tried to implement the requirements of marketing only spasmodically. Ingenious is easy to operate, the controls after an hour, even without any instructions. My word on it, it will really understand each!
The microphones are working perfectly, should be offered the Lo-Mid Hi-Sensitivity modes for really keep everyone happy and with a fully charged battery runs through the Small really at least 4 hours.
The available audio modes provide enough reserves for any purpose:
From 48kbps to 320kbps and VBR mp3 and. Wav to 24bit 96kHz the H2 can create and play any format of course. Except for the somewhat small display, a nod to its size
After a year of intensive use of this device, I must also say again that this thing is really top notch.
I use it mainly for my band rehearsals and even during practice micht take. The quality is always really great if you also sometimes think of how the effort is minimal. It is the thing then suppressed, and it runs on record. Have already taken this whole Jazzgigs, and also because the quality was great. Of course you can do so no studio recordings, but that would be a bit much to ask, but to create a well-differentiated and audible recording of a rehearsal room it’s perfect.
Of course, one can thus easily record interviews or lectures, etc. Then simply using the USB cable to the Pc and it is ready.
Best Price and Best Performance, The H2 is a little giant. The images (I use it for choir rehearsals and recordings at gigs, so in very different areas) are top notch and amaze any of it sounds. At first I was pretty much laughed at, but as they heard the shots, it has revised his opinion very quickly. So many settings are possible and even though I am a complete manual mold, I’m mainly relevant details quickly internalized and well thought out in the convenient access and good service specifications described naturally found quickly. The size of the H2 is perfect, fits in your pocket, and is hardly noticeable “stops” even the smallest sounds – great!
The only problem: The included adapter or bracket for the microphone stand fell apart when screwing on the H2, because the owner was not well glued properly. I’m going to have the claim, perhaps because the manufacturer is already known something similar. The device itself is really only recommended, it is certainly not better shots with upmarket appliances.
Finally, the MD recorder is in the closet. If one wants to take his own concerts as a musician, this device is certainly worth a recommendation, since it combines convenience with superior recording quality. In this price sector, there is absolutely nothing like it, the recording quality is very suitable for classical music. So finally is a solution on the market that can compete in their ease of use with the cassette recorder of yesteryear, but the recording quality to CD quality comes and brings even more high-quality microphones, which alone already justify the price. The transfer of data to the computer is finally as easy and simple that they each can (even on a computer novice amateur) handle. The H2 has among musicians with a great future ahead …
P.S. If I wanted something to criticize, then it would be the panel, with the relatively small buttons, which I fear a rapid wear. The energy consumption is high, but within a framework of what is tolerable.
Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder Specification
- W-XY mic patterns with 4 mic capsules and signal processing allows Front 90 cardioid, Rear 120 cardioid and 360 polar patterns
- Finally record 360 sound as 2ch data or 4ch data simultaneously
- Built-in USB 2.0 port for data storage
- Records in WAV 96kHz/48kHz/44.1kHz at 16-bit or 24-bit, MP3 to 320kbps and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) data formats
- Time Stamp and Track Marker functions in Broadcast WAV Format (BWF)
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July 20, 2011 5:43 pm | 
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