Understanding 32-Bit Float Recording

Very interesting

Can the device actually record more than 140 dB of dynamic range? Conventional wisdom says that is impossible. The best converters cap out at 120 dB. Has that changed? A custom 16-bit floating point format could be used as a means of compression to extend the recording time.

It would make the F3 complete to have an attachable (stereo ) mic like we can buy for the H5

What are you guys doing about the high frequency noise busts on the ZOOM F6 when recording in 192kHz 24-bit and/or 32-bit?

Can you record at 64 Bit m

For your roadmap, please bring a 32bit version of the Zoom H3-VR and an H6 version.
Since I started recording my samples in 32bit, the processing in RX10 has become much easier and the sound for my customers better and more flexible.
So a "ready-to-run" Ambisonic recorder in 32bit would be great!

Going to buy my H6 an F3

"32 bit float had a much larger dynamic range than 24 bit"
What is your definition of dynamic range? Using the definition I'm familiar with, something like "the difference in decibels between silence and maximum spl" for a microphone, the bit depth has nothing to do with dynamic range.

I guess maybe you are meaning "USABLE dynamic range" because that would make some sense to me, having more usability on the quiet end of the range.

Make an H1n with 32-Bit Float capability and you will have my money.

When Zoom puts out a 32 bit hand held recorder then THAT will be a game changer.

*Another video editor that can handle 32 bit float files is Magix Vegas Pro 18/19.

Can the Zoom F3 record three tracks simultaneously with different settings?

I noticed many reviewers said the wave magnifier did not effect recording level only headphone volume but it does according to this video. Good to know.

Thanks. Being a one-man producer... This is a giant help.

I appreciate that Zoom here has set out to give a quick summary, but it's really dangerous to declare that "clipping is impossible," as if some kind of universal insurance policy. Many if not most users are unaware that clipping frequently happens at the microphone level, no matter what happens further down the chain at the 32-bit float recorder. Here's a great example that hits them close to home: one of Zoom's few other 32-bit float products, the F2, clips pretty easily when the lavalier included with the F2 is at the normal location below one's neck, but, say, someone sings at full volume. The maximum SPL of the lavalier simply can't handle it. The 32-bit float recorder faithfully captures the unusable clipping.

Sweet!