Published 23/3/07
Further releases in the 'H' range
Japanese hardware manufacturers, Zoom, have announced a number of new products in their ‘H’ series of portable solid-state and hard disk recorders. Building on the success of their low-budget hard disk recorders, Zoom have announced the H8CD and H16CD, which will replace the hugely popular MRS802 and MRS1608 models. The new products have a noticeably different design, and now include five-segment LED metering on each channel as standard. The CD-RW drive is now a standard feature (hence the ‘CD’ part of the model numbers), as is the USB 2.0 port that features on both new models.
As with the MRS802, the H8CD has two audio inputs, allowing two channels of simultaneous recording, and a total of eight playback tracks, although it lets you save up to 80 virtual takes. The H16CD has eight audio inputs and 16 playback tracks, with the option to save up to 160 takes. Both models have an 80GB hard disk and a ‘drum/bass machine’, which has over 500 onboard sounds, along with touch-sensitive pads and 60 seconds of sampling memory, into which you can load your own samples.
Following the success of the Zoom H4 recorder is the H2, a smaller, but equally ‘handy’ piece of kit. We don’t have many details on it at the moment, in fact, at January's NAMM show, the only H2 was a non-working prototype, locked up in a perspex box. However, the information we do have on it is fairly interesting: it will have a multi-pattern stereo microphone, capable of recording in a Middle & Sides (M&S) mode, and will ship with proprietary software that lets you convert its output into a Dolby 5.1 surround signal.
Like the H4, it will be able to record WAVs at up to 96kHz, and MP3s at up to 320kbps. What’s more, it is set to cost only £149.
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Japanese hardware manufacturers, Zoom, have announced a number of new products in their ‘H’ series of portable solid-state and hard disk recorders. Building on the success of their low-budget hard disk recorders, Zoom have announced the H8CD and H16CD, which will replace the hugely popular MRS802 and MRS1608 models. The new products have a noticeably different design, and now include five-segment LED metering on each channel as standard. The CD-RW drive is now a standard feature (hence the ‘CD’ part of the model numbers), as is the USB 2.0 port that features on both new models.As with the MRS802, the H8CD has two audio inputs, allowing two channels of simultaneous recording, and a total of eight playback tracks, although it lets you save up to 80 virtual takes. The H16CD has eight audio inputs and 16 playback tracks, with the option to save up to 160 takes. Both models have an 80GB hard disk and a ‘drum/bass machine’, which has over 500 onboard sounds, along with touch-sensitive pads and 60 seconds of sampling memory, into which you can load your own samples.
Following the success of the Zoom H4 recorder is the H2, a smaller, but equally ‘handy’ piece of kit. We don’t have many details on it at the moment, in fact, at January's NAMM show, the only H2 was a non-working prototype, locked up in a perspex box. However, the information we do have on it is fairly interesting: it will have a multi-pattern stereo microphone, capable of recording in a Middle & Sides (M&S) mode, and will ship with proprietary software that lets you convert its output into a Dolby 5.1 surround signal. Like the H4, it will be able to record WAVs at up to 96kHz, and MP3s at up to 320kbps. What’s more, it is set to cost only £149.
Exclusive Distribution +44 (0)1462 481148
www.exclusivedistribution.com
www.zoom.co.jp
