Zoom H6 Black 4-stars Reviews

Great as a portable, didn't work as an audio interface for me

Great as a portable, didn't work as an audio interface for me. For some reason that Zoom was unable to locate and fix, the H6 produced a background buzz as an audio interface. The H6 that Zoom inspected was considered defective by them, yet the replacement had the same issue on two different laptops. I now have a Livetrack L-8 with no issues. For an audio interface, I'd get something else, or test the product while I'm able to get a refund if necessary. As an outdoor/offline recorder this is great.

An improvement on the H4N from a handling perspective

Having four inputs with volume and PAD controls makes the H6 very flexible an easy to use. The battery life is a massive improvement. I like the quality of the recordings although perhaps the H4n has a slight edge

Great recorder

Easy ,intuitive and friendly.

The negatives are: The knobs sometimes are spin high and the recording is ruined. There must be a lock or something. Also the battery solution is not so elegant. 4 x AA batteries is good on theory but after 10 min they are gone.

Bought it to early

Sad I had to buy it at that point in time for recording small events to share them online, now I would buy the new bigger version H8 as it has all the updated functionality and also more input.

As the black version of the H6 came out recently it would have been great they also would have updated the specs to have usb-c and so on.

The biggest disadvantage is that this can not really be used as a handheld device since casing is not sound wise disconnected from the microphone which is a bit disappointing for a device in that category