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Limits RegistryThe Zoom F6, released in 2020, was the first widely available portable field recorder to record natively in 32-bit floating-point audio, giving it roughly 1,500 dB of theoretical headroom and meaning recording engineers can no longer clip a properly connected input regardless of gain-staging mistakes. It popularized 32-bit float recording across the professional audio and film-production industries.
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The Zoom F6, released in 2020, was the first widely available portable field recorder to record natively in 32-bit floating-point audio, giving it roughly 1,500 dB of theoretical headroom and meaning recording engineers can no longer clip a properly connected input regardless of gain-staging mistakes. It popularized 32-bit float recording across the professional audio and film-production industries.
The bit depth of the first commercially available portable audio field recorder to capture natively in 32-bit floating-point format, effectively eliminating clipping from level-setting errors within its input range.
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Limits Registry. LR-32BIT-FLOAT-FIELD-RECORDER. First commercial 32-bit floating-point audio field recorder. 2026.