Zoom H2 oddity

[mdlbear]

Interesting oddity about the Zoom H2 -- it keeps its settings in a configuration file on the flash card. So you can't just slap in a fresh flash card between sets, hit record, and expect it to use the same settings as the previous one without having set up the card in advance.

Once you've prepped a couple of cards, though, you can keep on going. And you can set up multiple cards with different settings, e.g. two for recording concerts at 44.1x24, and one recording to MP3 for a weekend's worth of circles.

Just don't get 'em mixed up. On the whole, I think this is a feature rather than a bug.

Comments

[hms42]

Have you contacted them about this feature?? There might be a way to have the unit default to a setting.

Harold

[mdlbear]

I'm assuming the default settings are hard-coded and it just writes them out during setup if it sees that there isn't a /SYS directory.

OTOH you could probably copy the config file into a fresh flash card, or reverse-engineer the format and write an offline setup application (which would be useful for people who want to keep lots of flash cards around for different setups).

[johno.livejournal.com]

That does sound useful.

Swapping out "concert" cards is easy. As you get the break to make the change.

Swap in a "circle" card and it just goes all night long at 128K mp3.