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Saturday night at our monthly concert at the local music hall, we decided to hang the Zoom H2 recorder from the ceiling and see what kind of recording we would get from it during our show. We had the recorder about 20-25 feet down the center of the auditorium from the stage speakers. We turned it on, hit record, and here's one of the songs we did that night. Not too bad, in my opinion, for a $200 small recorder the size of a pack of cigarettes.

What do you all think about it ???? CLICK HERE for it

Oh, and by the way......... a little reverb, compression and EQ were added.

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Ray,

You can't beat that little recorder. I record our concerts and touch them up a bit in PT. Take a listen on the Imperial Web Site below.


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Harold, I've used it as a microphone with RealBand to record some songs. But I had never used it as a recorder in a public place to catch the performance.

I do NOT regret my purchase of this little recorder. It's a good find.

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Good ensemble made of good musicians, good overall blend and sound, the H2 captured that.


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Hey, Mac! Thanks a lot, man!

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Very nice recording with the little H2 but even more impressive was "da band"!

You cats were jammin man.

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Ray, that sounded really fun. Good Johnny Cash-like vocals with the singer and the ivories were giggling!

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Amazing quality. Nice job by the musicians - you blended very well.
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Ray, I enjoyed listening to what the Zoom H2 recorder can capture in a live concert. I love the one I just bought and eager to learn more about how the settings work in different environments.

Can you list the settings you used--Wav vs Mp3 etc., speakers, front/back

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I have a DP004, and the quality of the built-in condenser mics is amazing for an item about the size of a paperback book. It uses SD cards for storage. There are some terrific portable recorders out now for reasonable prices.

Of course, no matter how good the recorder, it's the band that counts, and the music was excellent. Thanks.


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Hi Joan. Thank you and the other forum members for the kind comments.

Joan, since the recorder was about 20-25 feet from the stage, I used the BACK (120 degrees span), and I recorded directly to WAV with a 512 MB SD card (I got about 48 minutes). I Had the GAIN set for Medium and the volume associated with the gain at 100. That was pretty much it. When I got home that night, I downloaded the 500 MB file and of course it's ONE TRACK.... I then loaded that into RealBand and gave it a little reverb, EQ, compression, and LIMITER........... that's it.

Hope that helps.

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Good recording and rendition of that J. Cash tune. I recently got the Zoom H4n recorder and have tried it live with my small group. I'd post something if I knew how and where to do it.

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Wow man that sounded great! It is amazing what that little recorder will do. I just purchased a zoom r16 and it would be great for recording live as well because it is so small. The outboard mics are awesome though. The group sounds great.

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That sounds great Ray.

It’s good to here you’re still playing and playing quite well I might add. The band sounds super.


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