The Zoom F2 is REVOLUTIONARY for Wedding Filmmakers | Review

The Zoom F2 and F2-BT field recorders pack revolutionary audio technology into a tiny package that is almost perfect for wedding filmmakers. Here is my Zoom F2 and F2-BT review!

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0:00 Intro & Ethics Statement
0:48 Why These Recorders Are Revolutionary
2:38 Build Quality & Ease of Use
3:48 Battery Life Tests
5:15 Ease of Starting & Stopping Recording
6:41 Cost Cutting
7:47 Mic Jack Popping & Peaking
9:00 The Weird Formatting Issue
11:54 Zoom F2 Editor App & Phone App
13:30 Audio Quality Tests
14:59 Can You Use The F2 With A DJ's Sound Board?
15:55 Price of the F2 & F2-BT (& Hidden Costs)
16:51 Should You Buy The Zoom F2/F2-BT?
18:45 Thanks to Sweetwater!
19:09 Special Offer for Wedding Filmmakers

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[paulfairchild]

Anyone that has a Zoom F2, install firmware update 1.20 (released Feb 2022) from the Zoom site. It resolves the issue where the unit sometimes fails to record a file despite being in record mode; and the issue when recording when the recording will not stop (the file then also fails to record).

[motonosity]

Okay you’re gonna have to share your audio editing tricks cuz that sounds outstanding.

[JRESHOW]

My zoom f1 battery door failed right before a wedding. Ended up taping and gluing it shut. Zoom sent me a brand new one, still in the box. Bought the tascam

[timszczesniak]

Had a pair of the BT versions. Used them for a week before returning and grabbing Tentacle Track E's. Built in timecode, much better included mic, AMAZING app experience

[colorgradingcentral]

Matt at first I thought this was overhyped in such a tiny package but with your explanation my mind was 🤯 So just to be clear Matt are you saying that with this recorder I wouldn't have to worry about audio clipping??

[ThaimachineFilms]

18:45 there are some glitches i hear it about 2-3 times now in your video. is it from rendering, or did the recorder not a great job. listen to the Word "RECORDERS" here u are glitching. its still there after refresh the page.

[OMTEKNO]

Great video! I really like the 32 bit float on the Zoom F2. It can perfectly handle high SPL and dynamic sound from engine. With minor touch in post processing, the audio can be synced to the video and it does the job very well. The only cons is quality of the lav mic. I use deity w lav pro to improve the clarity.

[YoungBlaze]

question, the app, lets say if i bought 5 of these F2-BT am i able to monitor all 5, or its 1 per device? and is there a lagg

[SuperfastMatt]

Hi Matt, I picked up the F2 and your suggested lav mic upgrade (11D) and I'm not getting any sound with the 11D plugged in. The lav says it needs 3-10v plug-in power and the f2 says it supplies 2.5v. Could this be the problem? is there a way around this without buying a different recorder or lav?

[Detroupe]

You forgot to mention a very important thing. The ZOOM F2 accepts synchronization via Time Code directly with Bluetooth. Can be used with the Atomos X sync or an UltraSync Blue for example. To synchronize sound and video in post production.

[maartenvandenbosch]

Thanks for your interesting review. I chose the BT version, since formatting is now easily done via the phone app (i use android).

[Ballistic]

Great video. You recommend the COS-11 as an upgrade lav. However I believe that lav needs 5V to work properly and the Zoom only provides 2.5v Any chance you can test the performance of the lav? I suspect there will be an increase in the noise floor.

[GarethStack]

might be an idea to add the tentacle synch recorders to your comparison vid too, as they're also 32bit and bluetooth I believe

[scooterfreak]

How would you compare these to the Tentacle Track E?
I saw Gerald Undone’s comparison, but I was curious how you would feel with weddings.

[BillNewsinger]

I loved the ease of use and the decent recordings I was getting until… the device would refuse to end recordings or power off. So I would be forced to remove batteries in order to stop and I would lose the recording. Tried a reset and different memory card but no joy. It’s a killer. Can’t trust it for pro work.

[scotia]

I have 10 olympus ws-822 recorders the work just fine. I saw an earlier video yiu did and started buying them on ebay. Great little recorder syncs up fine with vegas pro video

[Bufonesnet]

Can i use this recorder with a rode lav mic? 🤔🤔 with no locking connector?

[DarrellMartinelli]

Hey Matt...Thanks for the review, I am late to the game with this as I love my DR-10L so much...but the latest firmware version brings SD card formatting from the app

[norman]

hey Matt, great video！Really helpful！
I had found some problems while using the f2 BT. I used it for recording the sound of my moto-vlog. However, I still faced to clipping problem. I can edit the audio file(such as pulling it down, turning the db lower), but it didn’t save the whole sound. The edge of the sound wave was cut. My friend bought a same f2 BT, and used for moto-vlogging as well, and he got the same problem! So, I’m wondering if that’s our problems of setting or the problem of this device? Because the problems we’ve got seem like not a real 32 bit float recorder. (Ps, we tried different microphones, and the motorcycles were not super super loud, so we don’t think the volume went over the limit of the microphones. One of the microphones is the Rode videomicro, and the maximum spl is 140 db. We are pretty sure the motorcycles’ volume is lower than 140db)
What do you think about our situation?
Thanks man!

[ColtKirwan]

I hope tacam updates their dr-10l to a 32bit recorder with the same body