Zoom H1essential

32bit float, to osiągnięcie technologii za które ktoś powinien dostać Nobla.
Początkowo nie wierzyłem jak to może tak działać jak na papierze (że nie trzeba ustawiać poziomu nagrania) ... No k... jak to...??
No i otóż okazuje się, że ... nie trzeba.
:)
Bo teoretyczna rozpiętość dynamiczna 32bit float to coś około 1500 dB, czyli mogę z jednej strony zebrać bzyczenie komara z odległości metra a z drugiej strony mogę wsadzić mikrofon w tube bass refleksu i ten WAV to wytrzyma.
(nie wytrzyma coś innego - nie wytrzyma mikrofon. ŻADEN. nie ma takich mikrofonów które by to wytrzymały).
... tak czy siak - gamechanger totalny!!!
Ten sprzęt mógłby kosztować 5 razy tyle i nadal byłby warty każdej złotówki.

I was pretty skeptical when buying this one. I have a Zoom M4 which I consider one of the best recorders currently on the market especially for the price it's going right now. I've heard a lot of bad reviews from professionals about this one but honestly I think it's great overall. It's veeeery convenient, very easy to use and most importantly, the sound. Considering the size and the price I can't ask for more. It works really well with external microphones and the built-in ones are not bad at all! I work with the sound professionally and to me the zoom h1e will be useful

I bought this as an upgrade to my H1 first generation, received it today and called a saxophone playing friend to try it along loud percussions, and the "32 bits don't bother the gain just play" was immensely satisfying. We made two quick tests to find the right relative position and just peed the rec button and improvised, the result was as advertised, no clipping. Very handy recorder and an amazing upgrade to the previous generations. My friend who's also a producer and a sound engineer was pretty convinced too, and will probably get the H4essential or H6essential - despite the self noise which is not a problem in most contexts but we're sitting about a tenth of the price of a sounds device mix-pre6. This model is a must have for quick field or jam recording or backup ready to solution.
As a sound interface, unlike previous model it has dual recording and playing so it might be a cheap sound interface except it seems to be limited to 48 khz operation in this mode.

Quickly tried the overdub, it's fun and can come in handy, but only operates on 48KHz and had a few limitations. It is not destructive on the first track your overdubbing, that is it creates a new track with the overdub. Would be awesome to have two more tracks when overdubbing instead of one : the isolated overdubbed track and the mix as reference, to be able to properly mix later in a DAW.

As a hand device, even using the handle that came with the H1 accessory set, it's a bit delicate to not create noise, even squeezing a bit too tightly the handle results in heavy extra noise, the mics are very sensitive to the wind including the one when moving around, and without a pop filter you have to keep quite a distance to the mic to avoid clipping - so for short range voice either use a pop filter or external microphone, and for the wind or waving quickly the microphone from one side to another maybe a good rycote-like protection will be necessary.

Nevertheless, for my main purpose which is some girls recording and live musician recording with the least hassle, it definitely fits the goal, offer some extras and it's a huge upgrade to the previous versions. 5 stars overall, only 4 for quality because plastic, self noise and sensitivity to hand operations (no problem on a tripod) but still that's too be expected given the price tag.

I suppose it could run on a USB power bank which is great because with a 64gb card you're good for me than 21 hours of recording in 96kHz.
A perfect set of accessory would include charger/power bank/cable/tripod/bag for the recorder+accessories/adapters for mic stand/a stereo splitter cable/pop filter+adapter/foldable headphones