The Zoom F6 occasionally displays the error 'exceeding maximum input levels' when recording high SPL sound sources in 32-bit mode. Other users have reported the same problem but on analysis afterwards, the sound isn't clipped or distorted in any way. On this test I'm using a pair of Clippy (EM172) microphones right on top of a ride cymbal. The first couple of hits are quiet but then for all the subsequent ones the error came up on screen so I was expecting either clipped or distorted sound afterwards. However, I was able to normalise the audio to get rid of the clipping, and there is no audible distortion. This looks like maybe a software problem, where the unit is displaying the error at the wrong time.

Zoom F6 Exceeding Maximum Input Level

Stereo soundscape recordings. Sometime nature, sometimes people, sometimes machinery. Sometimes quiet things like a single branch creaking in the wind on Dartmoor, sometimes odd moments in the city. Mostly local, but sometimes travelling. 

Zoom F6 Exceeding Maximum Input Level

Douglas Langley