New toy!

LauraKoskinen · Post by **LauraKoskinen** » October 9th, 2008, 6:06 pm

DSayers wrote:Hating to rain on Carl's parade ...

I got myself a Zoom H2 to celebrate another occasion, but a week of mucking about with it has left the H2 in its box since then. Does it only work with Windows? I cannot get the sound files I record in the field to be recognized on my Mac. Any suggestions?

-denny

Naturally I went to Google to look up the "recording toy" and noticed this:
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Samson - Zoom - H2
Please note: The Zoom H2 will not mount as a USB Drive on MAC OS X 10.5.0 Leopard unless you update to H2 Firmware version 1.2 or higher. ...
www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodid=1916 - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

I don't know what it all means but hoped it might help. Laura

PaulW · Post by **PaulW** » October 9th, 2008, 8:00 pm

And if you have a memory card reader, you should be able to remove the card from the Zoom and use the reader instead.

DSayers · Post by **DSayers** » October 9th, 2008, 8:11 pm

CalmDragon wrote:
Starlite wrote:
catchpenny wrote:All right, I'll bite. What is your favorite toy?
LOL I wasn't gonna ask.
um, my mini cooper turbo s convertable is my favorite toy...

It's amazing how realistic they can make these little wind-up toys look these days

puffin1 · Post by **puffin1** » October 9th, 2008, 9:25 pm

Denny, a Google search came up with this page:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1916

If you scroll down a bit, there's a gray box indicating a link to a required firmware update in order for the H2 to work with Leopard 10.5.

puffin1 · Post by **puffin1** » October 9th, 2008, 9:26 pm

Oops! Didn't see this last page with Laura's post.

daniele · Post by **daniele** » October 10th, 2008, 8:08 am

I'd like to have a try with this but... isn't the presence of removable AA batteries a main let down? I mean nowadays all these little portable devices have their own lithium battery. I know you shall bring the charger along but on the other side it sounds a lot more comfortable and handy to me than fumbling with rechargeable(or not) AA batteries(on and off, and checking if it's charged and whatever else, bah), I always hated to do those things.
So, is it? Or you're quite comfortable even with those?

daniele.

DSayers · Post by **DSayers** » October 10th, 2008, 8:25 am

puffin1 wrote:Denny, a Google search came up with this page:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1916

If you scroll down a bit, there's a gray box indicating a link to a required firmware update in order for the H2 to work with Leopard 10.5.

Wow, a million thanks, puffin and laura!

-denny

CalmDragon · Post by **CalmDragon** » October 10th, 2008, 8:30 am

daniele wrote:I'd like to have a try with this but... isn't the presence of removable AA batteries a main let down? I mean nowadays all these little portable devices have their own lithium battery. I know you shall bring the charger along but on the other side it sounds a lot more comfortable and handy to me than fumbling with rechargeable(or not) AA batteries(on and off, and checking if it's charged and whatever else, bah), I always hated to do those things.
So, is it? Or you're quite comfortable even with those?

daniele.

I have two standard AA batteries in mine, but have not used it much in that way. AC power is connected when recording. And I use USB port to power it when transferring files to the PC from the H2's data folder.

daniele · Post by **daniele** » October 10th, 2008, 8:39 am

AC power is connected when recording

aaah I didn't know that it was AC power pluggable!
Well that makes a difference for me!

thanks for pointing that out!