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I use them. Many people who make real money and are worth their wait in gold, that make good stereo recordings, who make money recording live music use them. They are good, end of story.TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:04 pmI've seen zoom handhelds in the hands of some serious field audio people doing great work - in this you are doing yourself a disservice.bishopdante wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:51 pm Bd + initial semi careful kept in a briefcase and not used to hammer nails work in W11 London postcode + H6 : six weeks.
Not moisture tolerant: microphones killed by 100% humidity, unit killed by liquid ingress & corrosion.
It also got dropped subsequently while dead, in its zoom-branded snug fitting case, from waist height, which knocked a corner in leaving a big hole, enabling the view into the interior of greenery. Moulded thermoplastic, probably not even ABS or nylon. The cat sat on it and jumped off. The way it broke, I suspected it had been designed to do that. I'll dig out some of the disassembled photos of the inside of the H6... it's bad.
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My hatred of zoom equipment comes from their '90s floor multi effects units which people insisted on using, and would turn up with a pile of intermittent ones asking if somebody could rebuild it reliable at any cost, and that they can't use something else, that is their sound.
Past that... my opinion is deliberately uneducated/inexperienced. I avoid it. I like zoom almost as much as I like Microsoft.
It's really cheap for what it does. That's because they do things like having no conformal coating on the motherboard of a location recorder. Built cheap to break fast. Featuristic while working.
Looking at its specs, my miff on the R20 is that it tops out at 44.1 (in 2022, for reals?) and does not have phantom on the first four inputs. I know that they are kinda cheap for this type of thing, but still : /bishopdante wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:22 amThis is a thread about a dodgy R16... but this is exactly what I am talking about https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/view ... 16&t=40039