Since I have been asked I explain the process of how to set the H2 to record interviews and transfer the file to a computer. Thanks to my niece Sara, who worked the camera.
I was watching people talk about this and they complained so much... saying things like it's hard to use, feels like a kids toy and the sound recording quality is ok, i just bought this. I read for about 5 minutes learned how to use it all, tried recording it sounds perfect and it is light easy to carry around. This piece of art i bought for $240 and i can easily say it is better then a friend i knows recording device which he payed $900 for. Very very good machine!
Recorded our big band concert for 90 minutes with built in mics from center back of room. Burned cd's. They sound really better than expected, and the built in mics did very well, actually. Not much need for compression, did not have to enhance it much with verb, as we wanted it to more accurately represent the dry room we performed in order to hear details and any bleeps or glitches. Very happy with the Zoom H2 so far.
The 128 Kbps advice is absolutely right. You'll get about 17 hours of recording (keep an extra set of AAs for sessions longer than 2 hours.) But if you use this for live music in a club or hall, don't use the high gain, and don't set the mike level too high, or you'll get painfully distorted sound. (But this seems like too much recorder for interviews.) But once you're used to it, it's a fabulous machine.
The 128 Kbps setting advice is right on the money. A 2 MB card will gives over 14 hours of recording time. But for live music in a club or hall, don't use high gain, or set the mikes too loud, or you'll have painfully distorted sound. Keep a spare set of fresh AAs around for recording sessions longer than 2 hours. PS. My instructions for the unit said to do the file transfers with the H2 turned off (it still connects beautifully, and transfers down to disc just fine).
There is a peak limiter that will keep the input levels from distorting...I smuggled mine into a few metal shows and got wonderful results...great as a microphone for a HD camcorder.
@013CHAVEZ You would need to get a program such as Qbass if you wanted to add tracks to your computer that you can constantly add more and more things to, i have recorded atleast an hour and a half of songs on there but it will never be perfect as you can't record singing or music seperately
Check out the demo video of the WIND JACKET for the Zoom recorder at the WindCutter RU-vid channel. They are amazingly effective at preventing wind noise when recording outdoors.
Very informative! Thank you. I'm waiting for mine to show up in the mail and I'm very excited! Regarding the questions below, my guess is, this device doesn't have an external speaker, so you must use the earbuds or a regular set of headphones to listen to the playback. Can anyone verify?
@blahblahchachacha you must have been trying to usb it to your computer(the wrong way) and it froze. the only way then is to peel out 1of the batteries and then put it back to clear the memory(somewhat re-boot it) it will not hurt it,but next time follow the instructions to the letter and just start over ok? i did the same thing don't feel so bad
