Review on 🎤 Zoom iQ7 Stereo Mid-Side Microphone with iOS Camera Alignment, Ideal for Music Recording, Video Production, Interviews, and More by Paul Williams

I will update this review after this weekend when I actually test it. I've had several older Zoom recorders and they generally sound great. Since the microphone is the most important part for this, it looks like it is no different. However, it is more convenient than a regular recorder because you can use it to record and instantly email the file to the cloud or computer. This outweighs the shortcomings, which I will now focus on. Bad: 1. The biggest downside in my opinion is that it doesn't work well for connecting to iPhone 7 or any other i device. The entire mount is the lighting connector itself. Considering this is a stress point, I don't know how long this will last in the long run. You would think they would explain it somehow, but no. It also means there's no really good way to mount the device on a mic stand or whatever. Also, forget that your phone needs to be in a case and attached to it. It will not attach tightly enough (if at all) when there is a sleeve around the joint. Poor physical design in general, IMO. The best possible solution would probably be to get an extension cord or something similar, but then the mic head just hangs down at the end. fur.2nd. The software is problematic. It's not *horrible*, all the basic functions work BUT it's buggy: for example, I had bluetooth headphones on when I plugged this thing in. Recording worked fine, but when it returned to playback it was silent. it seemed to me that he wanted to play from the headphone jack connected to the iq6 and not the iphone. When I unplugged the iq6 it ONLY plays through the iPhone speaker. So if I want to play audio, I'll probably need to either plug the speaker into the audio jack or email it to my cloud and play it from there. All in all, it's pretty annoying. I guess the alternative is to use a regular recorder which would require connecting the recorder to my computer which is a lot less convenient but the whole point was to take advantage of the software and I wasn't impressed. so: forget wireless loudspeakers for monitoring. forget *monitoring* unless you connect it to the headphone jack on the Zoom.