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excellent hello everyone and welcome back to Pauls hardware please pay no attention to the massive hardware you see sitting just to my right it's just there's a test to see how easily distracted you are today's video is actually going to be an unboxing and overview of this zoom h1 handy recorder now for starters I need to give proper credit for this recommendation here because it came from none other than elric Faris guys probably know him from his tech of tomorrow YouTube channel apart from all of his knowledge about computers and whatnot he also has done a fair amount of audio creation and recording in the past so he recommended this this recorder for me to use as a microphone it's one that he's is when he's doing his videos and it's got really good sound and it's pretty versatile so I'm already liking it just going over the features that I see on the box and I should also mention since he has joined our newegg TV team he's there to supplement our team not to replace anybody that seems to come up quite frequently and he's not a place than anyone he's also there with us and no one's quitting anyway so let's start off the closer look at the box here we can see it's the h1 a handy recorder brilliant stereo recording now in your pocket this is version 2 point 0 it's got a USB connection so you can actually use it directly as a USB microphone so in the same way that the blue snowball mic that I got can simply plug in via USB but this one has a lot of other features as well there's a picture of the recorder itself comes with free bundled software you get wavelab le7 by Steinberg so you get some linear audio editing software there for windows 7 or Mac that's pretty nice the lad on there so the model number and UPC on the bottom now let's take a look at the side here the zoom h1 handy recorder XY Mike design captures perfect stereo images with remarkable depth and clarity you can see right here it's got sort of cross firing microphones so you get a stereo audio signal records wave to 24-bit 96 kilohertz for high resolution audio mp3 to 320 kilobits per second for maximum time uses up to 32 gigabyte micro s HC cards for maximum recording time so that's pretty cool future here I can just drop in something like say this right here Oh a 32gb microsdhc card and then I reckon record all of the audio that's ever existed moving right along at it's a USB to point out connections so I'm no need for ESP 3-pointer with an audio device with sp2 pono should be plenty fast broadcast wav format compatible timestamp and track marker on board reference speaker external mic and line inputs low cut filter and auto level setting features built-in mount for joining to a tripod 10 hours of continuous life continuous battery life with one double a battery so pretty impressive specs there it's on this side I think it's the same thing on both sides yes yes it is okay inside the box we have and included two gigabyte micro sdhc I'm sorry just micro SD card with an adapter so you can start recording right from the get-go pretty tip a little two gig card right there with the standard size SD adapter as well you'll also get information on SD card usage precautions never had precautions about an SD card before here's the handy recorder system software version history so there's one point oh there's also version 2 point 0 which has some updates information about installing your wavelab le7 software cool i guess it's just included on the device maybe oh yeah tickets already it actually ships pre-installed all right and here's your actual quick start guide there so walkthrough of the functions so if this is a little blown out guys but if we can read a little bit setting the date and time adjusting the input levels setting the recording format play adding track marks I like and stuff and we're into information of course from zoom one year alright so one year warranty also for this device from samson I didn't realize this was made by Sampson does it say Sampson anywhere in the box designed by zoom in Japan you're their partner company apart from all that you do get a battery she's just really seriously in there okay that's it for the packaging so battery included yourself up and running just takes a single double a and then the recorder itself which is that's plastic alright so there's the zoom h1 handy recorder so if you're at the top you can see the two microphones again stereo so they're both firing in either direction we have some we have a low cut filter auto levels recording format between wav and mp3 so just to switch right on there you can switch it back and forth wave for better quality mp3 for more recording time here is the battery compartment down the back pretty straightforward here's your micro sdhc card slot right there so you can drop in what I will be using is I'm not sure if I actually use that 32 gig because that's pretty overkill I think I have a four gig lying around somewhere alright so here's some of the cool features i really like about this a headphone line out so if you are using this for to use non synchronous sound so if i'm recording separately from what i'm recording on the camera for example i can plug in a headphone right there to actually monitor that volume knob also write their rocker i should say available then over on this side we also have a line in Jack you'll notice they're gold-plated so I can take a higher quality microphone for example or handheld mic plug it in right there and then use this for handheld recording here's where you can adjust your input levels here's playback stuff for play and pause fast-forward and rewind also trash to throw away audio clips and then pretty standard power button right there so slide that way to turn it on you can put it on hold as well so you don't actually change any settings while you're recording then of course USB compatibility so a USB plug right there a little mini USB jack and you can use that to plug in directly to your computer to transfer files or as previously mentioned you can simply record directly to your computer using this as a USB microphone caustic on the front you got a nice large centralized record button so easy to hit easy to find and then also of course you got your LED readout right there this will also indicate whether you're recording just so I've also indicate if you're peeking if you have your gain your input gain turned up too high it's also very small very light so really easy to carry around pretty versatile microphones so great recommendation by all right let me pop in the battery and it says hello all right an immediate pops up so you can see if you got your month day year so you can actually record the times that you're making your recordings very useful for sorting if you're doing all day or something like that and then it's also telling me there's no card right now so I need to pop in the card to actually do anything and there you can see it's actually got my levels popping up right there on the left side as well so you got active noise levels you can tell how how loud your recordings are and of course peak which maybe I can get it to peak yet there you go so if you're starting to close you get a little peek blink right there that indicates hey you're peeking in it's not going to sound good and that's going to wrap it up for this video guys once again this has been my unboxing and overview of the zoom h1 handy recorder stay tuned for a future video well but where I'll be doing an audio test and comparison between the zoom h1 and the blue snowball USB microphone thanks again for watching this video if you'd like to find more they're available on my pulse hardware youtube channel don't forget to subscribe we'll see you in the next video