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 enlarge | Brand: Zoom
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $334.99
Buy New: $159.36
You Save: $175.63 (52%)
New (42) Used (3) Refurbished (2) from $158.99
Rating:  163 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 6.5 x 3.6
The Zoom H2 Handy Recorder puts pro-quality audio literally in the palm of your hand! The followup to Zoom?s super-successful H4, the H2 Handy Recorder gives you an amazingly versatile tool for capturing top-notch 2-track audio. Its internal 4-mic capsule allows for several different polar patterns which, combined with its signal-processing capabilities, give the H2 the ability to record 4-channel data that can be authored into 5.1 surround! With a USB interface, external mic In, and time stamp
MPN: H2
Model: ZOO H2
UPC: 411378073426
EAN: 0884354007478
ASIN: B000VBH2IG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Phenominal Bargain. August 9, 2008
As for "bang for the buck", this is probably the best item I have ever purchased. It is user friendly, versatile, does everything it claims to do, and is totally affordable. A great tool. Every musician should have one.
H2 Review July 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well this product is really good... good sound for the price. Some other apparel seam to give some really similar result for double the of the cost. So its the best tool for amateur/semi-professional artist who want to record their stuff.
Great value for the price! July 29, 2008
I spent some time looking at reviews here and researching elsewhere for comparative write-ups and comments. I have been very pleased with the function of the microphone and the quality of the recordings. For an external mic option, I settled on a stereo lavalier mic set from GiantSquidAudio with great results, using both the powered mic jack, or through line-in with a battery box.
The ability to use it as a USB microphone directly to the PC has been handy on occasion, though it is so easy to transfer the files as a mass storage device, I would only do it for live audio use.
If you are looking under $200, this is a good option. I paired this with an 8GB Transcend SDHC card.
 Press twice to record is not intuitive, playback not through internal speakers July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Except for those two things I like this. The sound quality is great. Very simple to upload recordings to a computer.
Perhaps I am expecting too much here. But if I want to record something, I want it to record when I press the record button. But the first press of the record button is to set audio levels and the second press is to record. If you just want to use this as a simple recorder you may find yourself frustrated when it doesn't act like one. You press record and then notice that when you are done that you weren't recording. This is an extra level of hassle.
Then if you just want to record ideas, say, and have trained yourself to double press the record button, and you want to simply play them back, you need your earphones or some other external setup to hear a play back.
In short, if you are coming from an old mini-cassette player, you will find the quality of the H2 recordings to be wonderful, but you will not like the hassles involved in remembering to press the record button twice each time you want to record, and you will not like the fact that playback is not possible without earphones. The double record button press is especially a hassle if you want to be recording and stopping frequently, and are involved with other things getting your attention besides pressing the record button twice; it is easy to forget to press it twice.
So it may be handy compared with something straight from a recording studio, but compared with a simple cassette recorder, it is not so handy.
But I still like it.
Zoom H2 is great for podcasts July 21, 2008
I'm a professional trainer (sales, presentations, negotiations and influence) and we use Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder to create podcasts, interviews and other on-line audio files. I absolutely love this device. It's easy to use and produces noise-free recordings with very good digital quality. You can save files (or record directly to your computer) in mp3 or wav format. Love it!
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