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12-05-2007, 07:20 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| The question I raised regarding Ebay was partly a matter of new vs used, but also partly a matter of buying from someone who sells enough units that you can be sure you are getting an H4 that was manufactured recently. If you buy from someone who sells only a few per month, you could conceivably get an old one that has been sitting on his shelf. The problem does not apply to the H2 since they fixed this particular problem before any H2's were shipped. | 
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12-05-2007, 05:45 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| Thanks all for the information. I will seriously consider one and let you know the outcome. | |
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12-14-2007, 12:09 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Oregon
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| Just wanted to add a note to this thread. My son came home from college this week and was telling me what he wanted for Christmas. "It's H2 something..." he started. Thanks to you guys, I knew just what he was talking about! A friend of his from college has one and recommended it, as DS needed a recording device. So that will be his gift this year. | |
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12-14-2007, 07:33 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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| DS's arrived in the mail last week. DH (of course) is putting it to the test "to make sure it works"  I think DS will be very happy with this gift...it's what he asked for. | |
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12-14-2007, 09:31 AM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| I thought I'd throw in our very positive experience with the Zoom H2. We purchased S his recorder last summer after his experience with a friend's while they were attending a moajor summer festival. S (string player, 2nd year major conservatory) has since made several "important" audition recordings using the machine - the savings on professional studio and personnel more than covered the cost of the recorder. S and I are total idiots when it comes to machinery - the recorder is simple to use and it's then easy to "plug in" to computer to cut CD's. If we can do it - anyone can! The machine is so good, I'm considering buying one for myself (I'm a professional musician.) S has found it great for catching any little slip in intonation, vibrato control, etc that he might have been otherwise unaware of. | |
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12-14-2007, 11:53 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern CA
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| For anyone still looking, check out the brand-new MicroTrack II from M-Audio. It was announced at the AES show in October, but just started showing up in stores in the past few weeks. It's even better than the original and they lowered the price by $100. It's more money than the Zoom, but in an A-B test, it might prove to ge superior. With any of these, a better stereo mic than the one built in or supplied with the unit would be a big improvement in the quality of recording. | |
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12-15-2007, 02:21 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey
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| Agree about the mic.
Our son has found the built in mic in the Zoom superior to his old minidisc setup but he still uses a separate stereo mic when he's 'seriously' recording something of importance. | |
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05-09-2008, 07:04 AM
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#23 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central NY
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| Any updates on Zoom H2 experiences?
Reviving this thread... Anyone have updates to share re. your experiences with the Zoom H2? I would like to buy one of these for S w/o a lot of shopping angst, if opinions remain positive. | |
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05-09-2008, 03:00 PM
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#24 | | Member
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| Not first hand, but our son continues to love his H2 after about 6 months.. | |
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05-09-2008, 03:18 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
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| no "first hand" experience - yet
but lots of good word of mouth from owners I see with them | |
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05-09-2008, 11:57 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Oregon
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| My son says his is great. He has used it to record audition tapes for summer programs and seems to really like it. I haven't actually seen it in action, since he is back in Indiana, but the reports are good. | |
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05-10-2008, 07:35 AM
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#27 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
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| My husband loves his, and wishes he had more time to spend with it to learn various options. He has learned the hard way that a blinking red light means it's ready to record but is NOT yet recording. Press the button again to record....
I think we are going to buy one for S, who is going to music school. Hoping he doesn't lose it. | |
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05-10-2008, 07:51 AM
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#28 | | Junior Member
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| S continues to love his. He made successful summer program audition CDs and a recital CD from the Zoom H2 recording - opted to save $$$ and do that recording himself rather than paying the school's recording team. He's also had a number of students ask him to record their performances and make CDs for them.
I love the thing. I'm not tech literate or interested at all and find the machine approrpriately nonchallenging to use. | |
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05-10-2008, 11:23 AM
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#29 | | Junior Member
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| Can someone link me to a good exterior mic for this? | |
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05-10-2008, 02:22 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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| I have used the AT882 extensively both with minidisc recorders and with digital videocams. The audio results have been superb. Seems like it ought work. | |
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