Zoom SSH-6 Stereo Shotgun Microphone Capsule

The Zoom SSH-6 Stereo Shotgun Microphone Capsule is an interchangeable mid-side capsule engineered for the Zoom H5 and H6 portable recorders. It pairs a super-directional shotgun microphone element with a bidirectional side microphone, creating a mid-side stereo recording configuration. The shotgun element captures focused, on-axis audio with strong off-axis rejection, making it well-suited for dialogue, interviews, and field recording where isolating a sound source is important. The side element captures ambient sound from the left and right, which you can blend in during post-production to widen or narrow the stereo image to taste.

One of the SSH-6's key strengths is its full mono compatibility. Because mid-side encoding is phase-coherent by design, audio captured with this capsule sums to mono cleanly, which is critical for broadcast and video work where mono playback is common. The capsule draws power directly from the host Zoom recorder, so there are no batteries to manage. It attaches and detaches quickly via the recorder's modular capsule system, making it easy to switch between the SSH-6 and other Zoom capsules depending on the recording scenario. For anyone already working within the Zoom H5 or H6 ecosystem, the SSH-6 adds a focused yet flexible stereo capture option in a compact, lightweight package.