SOLD Zoom H1

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This is a little wonder tool. It's a battery powered (1xAA) field recorder with a stereo X-Y pair that records in up to 96kHz/24-bit in WAV and MP3 formats. It records to a MicroSD card. I've used it for wandering around Japanese temples and cities and recording soundscapes.

It also works as a 2x2 interface with Mac/PC and even iPad/iPhone. Comes with the USB cable and is class compliant on Mac/iOS, with ASIO drivers on the Zoom Website for Windows users.

Better yet, it can be used as a stereo USB mic, to recording acoustic instruments direct into the computer. If you use the stereo line input, you can instead record any line level sources (synths, guitar DI box, etc). With the iPad or a laptop you have a totally portable recording setup.

Some people also use it with dSLRs for vlogging, because you can plug the stereo out into the dSLR's mic input socket to get much better audio recording quality. Or you can plug in a lavelier mic.

Downside: it has some slight rubbing marks on the screen (see below), but it's not visible in use (see above).

All this in a handheld widget the size of a Mars bar. More info here: https://www.zoom-uk.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h1-handy-recorder

£55 shipped to UK

(Will trade for Zoom MS-50G or MS-100BT pedal)

goldtop

Have just managed to break one of the small tabs for the AA battery cover. It still fits but is slightly loose. So price reduced to £45.

sev112

How do you connect it to ipad?

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You use the standard Apple Camera Connection Kit (although I found that a low-cost Chinese one works fine with my 2018 iPad).That provides the USB connection and then you use an unpowered USB hub between the iPad and the H1. That is necessary to avoid the "Device uses too much power" lie that Apple tells you if you plug the H1 - or many other low-power USB devices - straight into your iPad!

(Same old Apple! This was an iOS 'upgrade' several years ago and it's about as stupid a limitation as you can get. When you put an unpowered USB hub between the two devices, iOS is none the wiser and everything works as it should.)

Here's an example of someone doing the same with a 30-pin style CCK:

Note: that guy uses a powered-USB hub, but as you'll see the power is not needed, and an unpowered hub does the job just as well and lets you be totally portable.