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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at the zoom h1 handy recorder this is a stereo recorder which also has a microphone input if you want to use an external mic with it it's become very popular for youtubers and filmmakers alike especially people who shoot with digital SLRs that have terrible audio on the top of them it's powered by a double-a battery and it's really portable really light you could stick it in your pocket hook a lav mic up to it and it would be a much cheaper solution than a wireless lav system now the device is mostly made out of plastic but it's cheap so you can understand why it will be made out of plastic it's only about a hundred bucks you got a line out for monitoring your audio via headphones and a volume rocker up at the top side of the left-hand side below that you've got a micro SDHC slot this comes preloaded with a 2 gigabyte card on the other side of the unit we've got a USB port a power and hold switch a trash button we've got our play pause fast-forward rewind an input level rocker and a line in as I said before you can use this to use an external mic if you prefer the quality or attributes of that particular mic on the top of the unit we have the stereo mics these ones are in an XY pattern below that we have our LCD screen with some basic information and a record button very simple not too many buttons on the front side on the back of the unit we have a tripod mount for mounting a device you can also mount it on a hot shoe with an adapter a low-cut filter auto level and a record format switch now we've got a little bit of documentation included which is to be expected and here's a look at that micro sd I was talking about comes with an adapter which is always welcome we also get an SD card usage precautions sheet so apparently you do not want to bend or drop this SD card I have never received a sheet like that before there is also an accessory kit that you can buy for your zoom h1 it comes with a tripod along with a wall power adapter a microphone adapter to put it in a microphone mount as well as a little windscreen for it and a carrying case anyway guys this has been the unboxing I'll let you know how it sounds in a later video if you haven't liked us on Facebook yet go ahead and do so and also follow us on Twitter we have a big giveaway coming up to celebrate 10,000 subscribers so definitely check us out there later guys