Zoom H-1 2.00 upgrade
dimanche 29 avril 2012 à 19:35The Zoom H-1 is a very interesting pocket digital recorder priced at ~95 €. It features two good quality microphones in XY position and can record up to 10 hours with one standard AA battery. Basically it's the same stuff as the H-2 but with only 2 mics, cheaper, and made of plastic. The microphone quality is good, not the best, but for the price it would be difficult to find something better.
Some time ago Zoom released a new firmware release (2.00) which mainly adds an USB audio interface feature, which allows you to use it as USB microphone / headphone amp.
How to upgrade?
- Download the firmware from ZOOM website
- Unzip the archive
- On Linux and OSX rename the file to uppercase H1MAIN.BIN (instead of H1MAIN.bin)
- Copy the file to the root of the memory card of the recorder
- Unplug the H1
- While pressing the play button, slide the power switch
- Press record button two times to confirm the upgrade
- When the upgrade is finished ("Done") you can power it off
If you get a "Write Error" message while upgrading, the file name is probably wrong. It should be "H1MAIN.BIN" in uppercase.