ZOOM H6essential Handy Recorder – Portable 32-Bit Float Audio Recorder with 6-Track Recording – Ideal for Podcasts, Music, Film Sound – Black

It’s brilliant. I’m a pro user and was familiar with the old h6. To be honest I expected this to be worse but it’s excellent in all respects. Audio quality is really good.

Amazing bit of kit - great sound quality and virtually idiot proof! Just press record.

I got this to start recording my podcast, plus soundscapes. I would advise getting a pop shield for the built in Mic but aside from that it’s a fantastic pickup on the mic, and ofcourse you can swap them around and attach third party mics to. I have a couple of Samson Q 2 U mics which work great. It’s a fantastic medium sized recorder packed with pro features you really won’t be disappointed. If like me you got this so that you can access the voice guidance functionality, it’s ready to go as soon as you power the device on. Again you won’t be disappointed. Well worth the money in my view.

Really happy so far, this is my third zoom recorder, and it's crystal clear for the price range

Good product. Sound quality excellent. Only used with mains adapter so can't speak for battery life. Very good value for money as it has four inputs plus the two built-in mics. All stereo and balance adjustable if need be. The only down side is the fiddly control of moving around it's functions very touch sensitive and quiet a bit of it. Ease of use questionable. Overall the best for home recording I've seen for acoustic guitar and vocals. Haven't used outdoors yet can't comment on battery life not used a battery. However, I'd suggest only using mains power if you're using phantom power for things like adding condenser mics as this will drain battery pretty quickly I think. Don't regret acquiring.

Works great with some really good improvements, especially the 32bit update which is a total game changer for anyone working with audio.My HUGE gripe with it however is the really poor decision to completely unnecessarily redesign the mic capsule attachments with no adapter or option at all for using any of the mic capsules from the previous generations. Anyone who's a heavy zoom user has probably got more than one of these mic attachments and the whole point of them being detachable was that you could upgrade the body and still use all of the mic attachments between devices. now they're just E-waste and you're expected to buy a whole new set of the exact same mics!can we please get an adapter module? or a trade-in system for this artificial problem Zoom has created with their own product design?

For some reason the Zoom company has chosen to remove the overdubbing feature from this unit. In my opinion it should no longer be advertised as a “creative tool” for musicians but simply a “capture tool”. Very disappointing.