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Notes: Zoom H1essential - 32-Bit Float Recording for All

The World's Easiest Recorder, Just Got Easier

With the push of a button the H1essential captures perfect audio for musicians, podcasters, filmmakers, and content creators. Simply hit record and discover the power of 32-bit float.

32-Bit Float Magic

With 32-bit float recording, you never have to adjust levels. The H1essential captures every nuance of your sound ensuring high-quality audio with every take

The First Handy Recorders with Accessibility

The Essential Series was designed with Accessibility for the blind and visually impaired. Navigate the menu with audible descriptions through the built-in speaker or headphones. Creators can choose English, Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian or Chinese.

Loud and Clear

The onboard X/Y microphones capture clean audio up to 120 dB SPL, equivalent to the sound of a high-performance engine.

The Perfect Practice Companion for Musicians

Musicians can use the H1essential to record every rehearsal, a great way to improve your playing. Features like overdubbing and playback-speed-adjustment are great for writing and practicing.

Sound Makes the Scene

The H1essential is great for filmmakers. Record and send audio directly to your camera or use it to record sound effects to complete your scene.

For Storytellers

Podcasters can mount the H1essential on a tripod for sit down conversations or use 'mono mode' for on-the-go interviews.

Big Features, Small Package

The H1essential has advanced features such as overdubbing, pre-record, auto record, and playback speed adjustment.

Features

32-bit float recording: perfect audio with no need to set gain
120 dB SPL 90 degree XY Mics
Records up to 96kHZ sample rate
New OLED Display
Overdubbing, auto record, pre-record and timer functions
USB Microphone Function
Audio guidance function for the blind and visually impaired
10 hours of battery life on 2 AAA Batteries or USB-C Bus power

Specs

Inputs

Built-in mic: 90 degree XY stereo format
Directionality: Unidirectional
Sensitivity: -37 dB/1 Pa at 1 kHz
Maximum sound pressure input: 120 dB SPL

MIC/LINE IN jack

Connector: Stereo mini jack
Input impedance: 2 kO or more
Plug-in power: 2.5 V

Built-in mic
90 degree XY stereo format
Directionality: Unidirectional

Outputs

PHONE / LINE OUT jack
Connector: Stereo mini jack
Maximum output level: 20 mW + 20 mW(into 32O load)
Output impedance: 10 O or less
Built-in speaker Type: 20 x 30mm oval dynamic speaker
Practical maximum output: 250mW

Recorder
Recording formats:
WAV
44.1/48/96 kHz, 32-bit Float
Stereo / Mono
BWF and iXML formats supported

Recording media
4-32GB cards compatible with the microSDHC specification
64GB-1TB cards compatible with the microSDXC specification

Display
OLED: 128 x 64

USB
Connector: USB Type-C (Use a USB cable that supports data transfer.)
USB Mic: USB 2.0 High Speed
48 kHz, 24-bit
File transfer: USB 2.0 High Speed

Power

2 AAA batteries Alkaline, Lithium, or Rechargeable NiMH
AC adapter: ZOOM AD-17: DC 5 V/1 A
USB bus power is supported.

Estimated continuous operation time using batteries

Alkaline batteries: About 10 hours
NiMH batteries (800 mAh): About 9 hours
Lithium batteries: About 18 hours
Stereo recording, 48kHz/32-bit float, no headphones, Power Save 1min
These values are approximate.
Continuous battery operation times were determined using in-house testing methods.
They will vary greatly according to use conditions.

Power consumption: 5 W maximum
Dimensions: 53.9 mm (W) × 136.6 mm (D) × 29.0 mm (H)
Weight (including batteries): 92 g
Note: 0 dBu = 0.775 Vrms

Notes: The Wave is the latest addition to Zomo's popular VS-Rack series. This stylish record rack offers - depending on the thickness of the LPs and stack white - space up to 40 records. Thereby the records can be stacked in 2 different ways in the rack: Either classically between the ribs or also crosswise, so that you can quickly browse through your favorite vinyls.

Like all VS-Rack shelves, the Wave is made of powder-coated steel and convinces not only with its stable and safe stand, but also with its unique look, which makes it an eye-catcher in every living room or studio. The Wave is available in 4 different colors, so that it can fit into any ambience.

Technical data
Weight: 2,5 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H): 300 x 300 x 220 mm
Format: LPs
Capacity: up to 50 pieces
Material: Metal

Notes: The Wave is the latest addition to Zomo's popular VS-Rack series. This stylish record rack offers - depending on the thickness of the LPs and stack white - space up to 40 records. Thereby the records can be stacked in 2 different ways in the rack: Either classically between the ribs or also crosswise, so that you can quickly browse through your favorite vinyls.

Like all VS-Rack shelves, the Wave is made of powder-coated steel and convinces not only with its stable and safe stand, but also with its unique look, which makes it an eye-catcher in every living room or studio. The Wave is available in 4 different colors, so that it can fit into any ambience.

Technical data

Weight: 2,5 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H): 300 x 300 x 220 mm
Format: LPs
Capacity: up to 50 pieces
Material: Metal

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box Space is a state-of-the-art solution for the storage of vinyls. It captivates with its extraordinary design and high quality. It is laminated with a durable, water-repellent decor available in four different colours.

The Vinyl Box is quick and easy to assemble and the exclusive design will inspire you. This piece of furniture is a real eye-catcher for every living room.

The capacity can vary depending on the thickness of the records.

Technical specifications

Dimensions (W x D x H): 460 x 400 x 370 mm
Weight: 3,7 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 100-150
Material: Wood

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box Space is a state-of-the-art solution for the storage of vinyls. It captivates with its extraordinary design and high quality. It is laminated with a durable, water-repellent decor available in four different colours.

The Vinyl Box is quick and easy to assemble and the exclusive design will inspire you. This piece of furniture is a real eye-catcher for every living room.

The capacity can vary depending on the thickness of the records.

Technical specifications

Dimensions (W x D x H): 460 x 400 x 370 mm
Weight: 3,7 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 100-150
Material: Wood

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylisch and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent dekor. This model is easy to install, multiple stockable and can be combinated with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers.

The capacity can variate by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylish and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent decor. This model is easy to install, multi-stackable and can be combined with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers. The capacity can be various by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylish and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent decor. This model is easy to install, multi-stackable and can be combined with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers. The capacity can be various by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo Recordcase RP-80 XT is recordcase with 75/25 divide in a classic style. The butterfly lock can be closed with an padlock (available as an optional accessoiry). The comfortable handle is rounding this nice shaped case.

Tecnical Data

Capacity: approx. 80 LPs
External dimensions (W x D x H): 350 x 250 x 330 mm
Internal dimensions (W x D x H): 315 x 245 x 315 mm
Weight: 3,1 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 50-99

Notes: The Zomo HD-120 Mono-Stick is the particularly cool version of the Zomo headphone series, which is particularly popular in club use and features a swivelling ear cup and an ergonomic handle.

The detachable spiral cable has a very stable plug and can be changed in seconds.

Particularly with this one-ear solution, it is important that the listener has enough pressure to be able to make the necessary volume even in extremely noisy environments such as discotheques. The kick-bass optimization mentioned above brings the desired effect.

The high-quality workmanship and the brilliant design create an increased style factor, which is particularly noticeable in the club area. The high-quality materials and drivers guarantee a long-lasting and professional sound experience of the highest quality.

Features:

Professional handheld headphones
Very good sound quality
Great processing
Transport bag, a set of imitation leather and velour padding are included in the extended scope of delivery

Technical Data

Cable: spiral cable, 3 meter, XLR to 6.3 jack plug
Adapter from 6.3 to 3.5 jack included
Frequency response: 30 - 30000 Hz
Efficiency: 110 dB
Weight: 253g
Headphone output: 1x 3.5 jack, 1x 6.3 Jack (with adapter)
Cable length: 3.0 m
Application area: DJ
Construction Type: On-Ear
System: Closed
Connection Mode: Cable
Rotatable auricle: No

Scope of delivery

Zomo HD-120 Headphones
Spiral cable 3 meter - XLR to 6.3 jack plug
Adapter: 6.3 jack to 3.5 jack
Carrying case
PVC ear-pad set
Velour Ear Padding Set

Notes: The Zomo HD-120 Mono-Stick is the cool variant of the Zomo headphone series.

The rotatable earpices and the ergonomic design makes the HD-120 a very populare choice when it comes to club performances. The removable spiral cables plug is build very solid and can be changed in seconds.

It is important for one-ear solutions to build up enough pressure to ensure an high sound level which is needed in loud environments like discos. Also the HP-120 has an kick-bass optimized frequency response.

The high quality and the brilliant design are an garantied eyecatcher in every club. The high-end materials and drivers are a garantie for a long livetime of these extraordinary professional sound experience.

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Notes: The Triple Cap Chaos(C^3 Chaos) is a 2hp analog, chaos based, noise oscillator, pseudo ring modulator/harmonics generator, and audio mangler Eurorack module available as a DIY Eurorack kit, PCB and Panel, or built.

It is a unique module, like the Diode Chaos, because it has never existed as a musical instrument until now. There is also no other module to my knowledge that can do exactly what the Triple Cap can do. The circuit(with several modifications) is based on the paper "Simple Autonomous Chaotic Circuits" by J.C. Sprott and Jessica R. Piper. As opposed to the Diode Chaos that generates control voltage this module focuses on the audio rate.

The "Emanate" potentiometer controls the coarser overall spectrum of the chaos, from lots of activity counter clock wise up to less chaos and more of a steady oscillation. The "Width, CV ATT" potentiometer can be thought of as more of a fine control for the chaos/oscillator. When something is inserted into the "CV" in the voltage normalization from the width knob is broken and the potentiometer now acts as an attenuator for the incoming cv. The Triple Cap is not a traditional volt per octave exponential VCO, and has a sort of narrow frequency range to exploit the chaotic behavior.

It expects a +5v to -5v max signal in to modulate the chaos. The "IN" jack is an A.C. coupled input for audio in, although cv and audio can work for both the "CV" in jack and "IN." The "IN" will interfere and interact with the onboard chaotic oscillator depending on the frequency of the input, which may take some experimentation. It can create ring mod ish sounds, to added harmonics, to almost bit crushed sounds depending on the "X" or "Y" output. The "X" output is a more windy noisy sinusoidal based output and the "Y" output is more squared off and aggressive, harsher sounding output.

Some quirks about the Triple Cap: The "X" output can offset negatively or positively a little bit depending on the pot settings, but both outputs tend to stay around 10vpp. With the "Emanate" and "Width" pots all the way up the typical frequency will be around 150hz although some will reach 200hz at this setting. With the "Emanate" pot full counter clock wise "Width" pot full clock wise the frequency will be around 250hz. It is possible to send signals into the triple cap that can bring it out of the desired range causing the oscillation to cut out.

The Triple Cap has a double sided panel. meaning one side has the classic graphics and the other is Soulless with less graphics.

Notes: The Entropy Expander is a 3hp Analog Random Voltage Generator that expands upon the features of the Entropy Euroack Module. Available as a Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

The Entropy+Expander packs together some of the most random voltage options in 6hp. It provides a controllable "Glide"(slew) out for the S/T\H, a comparator with a controllable rate("Thrsh") of random gates("Rand Gate") out with an input to compare other waveforms(Comp In, inserting a cable into here breaks the white noise normalization), and high pass filtered white noise resulting in approximate "Blue noise" (+3db/octave) and "Violet noise"(+6db/octave) outs.

The unique part of the circuit is a voltage controlled A/B switch thats normalled to the "Rand Gate" out that's switching between the S/T\H out(left Blue led window)and Infra out(right Red led window), the Glide control also effects the S/T\H coming out of the switch so you can get really random results from the "Entropy Out." Inserting a cable into "Switch CV In" breaks the random gate normalization and lets you toggle between A/B(left S/T\H out and right Infra out, indicated by the led windows) with your own gate or trigger.

There is a jumper on the pcb to select if you want glide on the s/t\h at, Entropy out, or un-slewed operation. There is also a trimmer for setting the amplitude of the incoming signal at "Comp In" which sets the frequency range of random gates. This may have to be adjusted depending on your Entropy version.

The random gate range can also be set up more as a noise oscillator by turning the pcb trim(clockwise) up or it can be set so random gates are extremely slow(trim counter clockwise) with minutes between random gates.

Notes: The Dual VCA is a 2hp 2 channel Analog VCA and Mixer Eurorack Module available as a Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

It is a DC coupled OTA(LM13700) Dual Linear VCA based on the same fabled design of the VnIcursal VCA. The 2 VCAs are summed together so it can be used as a voltage controlled mixer at the "SUM OUT" or all 3 outs can be used separately and simultaneously. 5 volts into the CV in will provide unity gain, anything above 5 volts can clip the input.

Notes: Diode Chaos is a 3hp analog chaotic low frequency voltage generator Eurorack Module available as Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

It is a unique module because it has never existed as an electronic music instrument until now. The module is based on a circuit from a paper called "A simple chaotic circuit with a light-emitting diode" written by Volos, Wang, Jafari, and Kapitaniak.

Diode Chaos produces 3 phases of interrelated morphing voltages including a chaotic trigger out. The range is 20-30 seconds a cycle up to audio rate, although only the X out and TRIG out go up to audio rate. The frequency is controlled by the RATE knob. Each output exhibits different behavior at different rate settings. X,Y, and Z outs like to stay in the 4vpp range although at different RATE settings the outs can reach 10vpp. The TRIG out chaotically releases 0-10v triggers although sometimes it will spit out smaller voltage peaks.

LED soldermask windows provide constant display of positive and negative voltage crossings.

Differences between chaos and random(some quoted and summarized material from Ian Fritz's site):

Chaos is "highly irregular, but still contained within a finite region (the "strange attractor")"

Chaos occurs in 3 dimensions.

Chaos needs a non-linear element (with Diode Chaos the nonlinear element is a red LED, and the chaos is directly visible and useable at the TRIG out).

Review: German-born composer Hans Zimmer towers over the modern movie soundtrack world. He is one of Hollywood's most in-demand names thanks to his uncanny ability to make emotive, absorbing and moving scores that captivate your mind even without the accompanying pictures. Sony are celebrating his considerable skills with this limited edition but vast quadruple album on nice heavyweight 180g vinyl. It takes in eight sides of music from his most notable works including Lion King, The Last Samurai, The Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Dark Knight and more.

Review: We've had more Neil Young compilations thrown our way over the years than many of us care to remember, but only one really sticks in the mind, and it's this one. Originally released in 1977 and chronicling the period in which Young went from being a simple member of Buffalo Springfield to one of the most heralded North American songwriters of the late century, and comprising work from that band alongside Crosby Stills Nash and Young, it's studded with delights aplenty. From the extended guitar sprawl of 'Down By The Ocean' and 'Cortez The Killer' to poignant balladry like 'After The Goldrush' and 'Helpless', no-one captured the dreams and hopes of the hippie generation in quite the way Young did, and this collection is a magnificent testimony to his most fertile and heartwarming era.

Review: This has been a year of celebration for hip-hop with artists, labels and festivals all marking the still standout genre's 50th anniversary. As part of that, Def Jam has put together this Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary Edition of Young Jeezy's Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 album on limited and gatefold triple fruit punch vinyl. It was originally released in 2005 by indie label Corporate Thugz and marked a fine commercial debut for the artists who'd already put out two mixtapes at that point. IA raw and hard hitting mix of gangsta and southern rap and trap, it's a high watermark for those styles, with singles like 'Soul Survivor' and 'My Hood' performing well.