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Zoom released New firmware for H1E. I am sending this again because i broke the first post.

  • You can set imput gain during recording but i don't know exact buttons
  • You can record and export to mp3
  • You can record with AI noise isolator. It analyzes the noise during first 3 seconds to get noise profile. you can enable it with shortcut, the third button in the top row (button which marks during recording) or in rec settings. Not bad but it filters just high frequencies.
    Do you guys testet this? @Andre Louis @Borris @Tomecki
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Borris

They're very different.
The H2E uses a M/S array, and it's side-address. You can record from front/back at the same time, which I don't really find all that useful. To do this, it uses a cute little trick where it has a front and back cardioid, and it inverts the phase of the sides to correct the stereo image depending on what side it's coming from.
Or you can record from the front mics/external 3.5mm input jack at the same time, either to a mix file or separate tracks.
You can adjust the stereo width of the microphones to three presets -- 90 degrees, 120 degrees or mono, or record in raw M/S and do all the processing in a DAW.
To me, the microphones of the H2E are a bit cleaner, and have a totally different sound. The unit is also quite a lot larger. Not huge, but definitely a different form factor. IT's more like a little side-address studio condenser microphone with buttons and a display on it.
There is also a slot for the BTA-1 Bluetooth adapter for wirelessly syncing it with other devices and setting the time.

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JamminJerry

@jonathan859 I also have the H1E, and the H2E, and absolutely love my H2E. in fact my H1E just sits in a drore collecting dust. smile. personally I like the way the H2E sits in my hand better than the H1E, but like I said this is me personally. I wonder why they don't have this update out for the H2E? that isn't cool.
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ondrosik

BTW imput gain can be set on home screen before recording, pres forward and rewind buttons. I am comfused what it actually sets. I set it to max. With mp3 it seems that there is some limiter enabled, for wav I am getting distorted output e. g. I hear that it sounds like distorted.
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Borris

So it's probably like setting the gain on all the other Zoom recorders. If you normalize one of those distorted recordings, it'll probably go down by a whole bunch of DB and clean itself right up. Not a chance in PCM land, but good that it has that failsafe for mp3.
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ondrosik

oops, its not distorted, it just sounds like that when listening back on the unit, I get recording with +17 db, after lovering the volume it sounds fine. I am still confused when using it as usb mic, because you can set send volume and imput gain. But maybe people used to mixers understands how that makes sense.
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ondrosik

now you can with prew and next buttons or how thei call it. Two buttons at the bottom to browse recording and revind / fast forward. It works just on the home screen before recording. When setup at max and turing volume knob to max, you can set it really too loud.
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ondrosik

I have two complaints:
1) It seems that AI learning is just some kind of placebo. I tested it with various enviroments, noises, music... and I am getting the same result.
2) When you dont have headphones, you can set the imput gain volume too low so you actually record silence.
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