Zoom H2 Loud Music Clipping Sound Test Demo Review
Channel: Crunchifyable
Date: 2011-08-10

Showing how my Zoom H2 clips / distorts via too much sound pressure.  The firmware is the latest.

It is about 6-8 feet from one guitar amplifier, at about 60% of maximum volume.  This is a fifty watt tube head run through a 4x12. 

The gain switch is on the low setting. And the "recording level"  setting has no effect on pre-amp clipping.

My conclusion is that these Handy recorders aren't a good unit for recording loud instruments fairly close.  It does great with acoustic instruments, but I doubt it can handle stage volume without placing it at a great distance from the stage.