Zoom H2 - Gravador de Áudio Digital Ultraportátil

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We use the unit to record sermons at church. One click to set levels, then another click to start recording. SD card transfers easily to laptop for editing and writing to CD. On the downside, the menu displays are quite small to see.

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I'm using a Yamaha keyboard with built in 5-track recording to lay down instruments then recording that playback plus live vocals and it produces a pretty good demo. Used it in rehearsal yesterday, blues band, guitar, harmonica, keys, drums and vocals and was blown away by the quality of the recording. We laid down 6 new originals and I'm VERY pleased.

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I got this Zoom H2 audio recorder as a companion for my Flip Mino 720p video camera. The device has a lot of options that are easy to use through a simple interface and the resulting audio recordings are fantastic. My daughter has used it for school work, too.

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Easy to use and straightforward. We use it to record Sunday Sermons at church. Downloading to PC is also easy.I like the fact that you can select .wav or .mp3. Display is a little small and does not light up when turned on, only after you select a function. Good unit overall.

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This is a great product that is extremely portable, has a good reproduction of sound. The only problem was a broken piece on the bottom of the device.

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I use the recorder for practice and performance. Easy to use. Good sound quality. Very light and portable. I've only tried the 90 degree setting so far.

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I'm starting out as a low budget film maker and this is a great recorder, it's price is very good and well worth every penny, I definitely recommend buying this product.

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Used for Blog recording interviews.
Also for recording a musical instrument for reference in practice.

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I love my new H2 Ultra recorder. I use it to record myself and my guitar. I used to go to a studio to do my recording and make my CD's . Now I can use my H2 at home without going to the studio.I record with my H2 and run it through my PC at home and can mix the tracks and make my CD's at home now and it saves me the money I spend at the studio to get the same product.I recomend the H2 to anyone who does any kind of recording, for recording thmselves ,or their band ,or live recordings of any kind .It has been a very useful product.

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I will be using the device to practice stories and narrations primarily and to provide sound files for videos. Since I'm a blacksimith rather than a techno guy, i appreciate the straight forward set up an a manual that doesn't require an electronics expert to decipher. Sound quality is great.

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I bought this unit at BH 2 years ago and use it extensively, making several recordings a week. I carry it around all over the place.Audio quality is excellent. Note that I mean for a[$]- unit. I am aware that audio can be better but for the price, this is really good quality. Price and audio quality, that's what I was looking for.For my taste, I don't mind the cheapo plastic casing as long as the inside is good.But I have a problem with the buttons and the interface. And I am not saying that other designs are better, this is a general industry problem. The buttons on the side are not great. And the lettering saying what they are for have mostly rubbed off. The buttons on the front panel are a bit weird. Slow and a little hard to figure out on the run. You have to read the screen to know what you are pressing. The screen is small and I find it incredibly archaic. And the recording button, you have to press it twice. It has happened several times that I didn't press it the second time as I was in a hurry and lost sound. The machine is slow at start up as well. Sound with a few seconds lost may be lost sound altogether. Downloading to the PC is sort of an odd process. Maybe it's just the screen interface. But I like the sound quality for the price and that is my main concern. It comes with a lot of options, ext mike plug, stand, wind cover, but I don't use any of it. Built in mikes pick up a lot of sound and I don't notice any white noise or sound from the machine itself.

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I purchased the H2 to replace my Nikon D5100 on board sound and it has been an excellent choice. it can be used as a seperate sound unit or plug it in to the DSLR and use it as an external Mic. positives excellent sound inexpensive
Negatives a lttle cheap feeling but that doesnt affect the performance I wouold buy again in a heartbeat

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I gave the item as an early Christmas gift to my husband. He takes it to small clubs to see live music and he absoutely LOVES it!! He is very satisfied with the sound quality as well as the menu on the front. He has not yet found anything about the device that he does not like.

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Use the H2 for recording concerts in a large auditorium. Wow, it picked up so much. need to study how to block some of the ambient noise. We had harps, violin, piano, and flute. Very clear on all. Lost some quality on the voice - could have been the microphone they were using.

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Pros.

Quality unit, good feel and heft; bonus for using "normal" batteries. USB interface was intuitive and worked instantly in a Windows 7 64-bit PC environment (reason for purchase, old recorder limited to XP/32-bit drivers).

Does what it says it will do, screen's small but at close range displays everything you're likely to want to see. Direct MP3 at low kbps and with compression, "just talking" audio is superb and you'll get about 46 hours on the included 1Gb card.

The baby tripod and the USB would make it a fine PC-style microphone, tested briefly, but this unit was purchased as a simple voice recorder, potentially in-line with other A/V equipment. Testing was thus mostly standalone; sound quality was entirely acceptable for the intent. No pops (used foam "head" on it, but it was fine at close range without the foam also), and the easy selection of front or rear microphones is nice.

Cons.

It's fat for a personal voice recorder. Fine for sit-down meetings or events, it's not going in your pocket, especially with the rubbery texture of (recommended) the optional silicon protector.

Microphones are good, but increasing gain to be on par with a previous "old" personal recorder was not possible -- it's probably in the manual, didn't read it (a tribute to the overall ease of use).

The 1Gb card is shabby, even at the price point, without shopping around, quickly bought a 4Gb card for five bucks - and bought the (max supported) 4Gb card because a 32Gb card lying around was recognized as being tiny-sized, 100mb range. Doh! However, 46 hours of MP3 voice-quality recording per Gb is nice.

Settings are simple, but file sizes bloom based on mic selection, which is not necessarily intuitive - a conference call sounded like a good reason to use the full "surround" mic option, but this created a 200mb file in about 30 minutes - and without looking carefully at the small screen, it's not evident you've chosen to switch quality (size) in switching-around the mic settings with the tactile buttons.

Final con is in the retention of settings data when switching cards. Get it all set-up on your 1Gb card, then throw in your 4Gb card, right? No deal, instead of the unit dedicating a tiny amount of internal flash memory to retain settings, you get to do them all over again on the new card. Again, could be user error corrected by reading the instructions, but who wants to do that? :)

Build quality is good, not great, but for the price, ignore the majority of the cons (supplied here because it's the info I would have liked to know before purchasing this, which I would have then bought anyway) and enjoy a fairly lightweight if husky personal recorder, get the silicon protection as all primary buttons and lights are well-suited to it for a few bucks, and skip or at least recognize that the optional hard case, in terms of the form factor, does not appear to be dedicated to this unit in particular.

Summary:

I except years of workhorse service from the unit in indoor and non-inclement outdoor use, and overall am very pleased with it -- the tripod mount and "thought it would fall over" cheap-feel plastic base was a pleasant surprise, allowing the logical (and stable) positioning of the unit in a vertical position during longer sessions. The unit could be used on a traditional tripod near a fixed microphone at events, though we have not tested the quality much beyond low-rate voice.

For the money, one of the best mid-range, standalone (but accessory capable), semi-professional sound recorders currently on the market.

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I am a musician and I use my H2 to record me practicing, rehearsals, concerts, and use it to make audition tapes. It is easy to use and the overall quality is good for the money.

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This is great to record high quality sound on the go. The gain adjustments are key and the inputs and outputs are relative.The construction seems a bit light and fragile but for the price you can't beat it, just take care of it and don't drop it.

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How you use the product? Every Day.

Things that are great about it? It was a great price from B&H.

Things that aren't so great about it? Feels cheap and flimsy. Does not hold settings. The interface is not intuitive and poorly thought out.

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This is a good quality product. The price is very reasonable. I use it for recording karaoke songs and play back to have fun. I thought the recording levels are just set by changing the side switch to L, M or H. I set switch at H and recorded some songs with LINE input, but audio is somewhat clipped when played by Audacity on my PC. It took me a while to figure out that the recording levels can be adjusted more detail by pressing Fast Forward and Rewind icons too. So, the recording levels problem is solved. The level meter on screen is very useful. I use it to monitor the mixer output before the receiver amplifier and found the gain of mixer output was set too high and sometimes audio were clipped. The meter levels should move left and right much dynamically with input signals. If the meter levels do not move much, your input levels from other machine were set too high. After I use this machine for a few days, I told my co-worker the beauties of H2. She decided to buy one right away.

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The H2 Ultra-Portable Digital Audio Recorder is an important piece of equipment in my business. As a newspaper publisher, I use it almost daily for coverage of meetings and other news events. The clarity and range of audio recordings takes the guess work out of keeping notes and accurately presenting information that belongs within quotation marks. This is the third H2 Zoom Recorder I have purchased, having given two others to reporters on staff. The H2 has allowed us to permanently retire the old mini-cassette recorders that we once used. Amazing product. Suggest ordering an extra mini-tripod base when making a purchase. If it's used by more than one individual, invariably someone will lose or misplace the mini tripod.