Ok hello people, yes it's me again. softie "dir" pmed me which I thought it was just about time to go into detail what H4 is about and how it is via tests of it. james(soft) pls create a "Pro Audio/Recording Gear" Review section when you're free. I'll be updating this thread with videos/photos/audio and lots of text.
So what are we talking about?
check out who's using it @
http://zoomh4.net/
and the
main site here
the PM goes...
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Originally Posted by dir
Hey man, I read somewhere on the forums before that you had a zoom h4. I have a few questions regarding. Have you tried recording with external mics? How is the sound quality? I heard not so good things about the preamps for the external mics. I'm thinking of getting one for a cheap solution to record 4 track drums, but would like to get some opinions first.
Thanks,
Khidir
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first of all, in case you get mistaken, when you say 4track drums .. Zoom H4 has a 4-track recorder function, but you cannot record simultaneously 4 tracks you know right? because there's only
Mic Mode : using zoom H4 mics ONLY stereo recording. (16/44.1,16/48,24/96khz)
Input Mode : using zoom inputs ONLY (no mics) stereo recording. (16.44.1)
you can't inter-mix recording one mic and one input or record all 4 at once using 2 mics + 2 inputs simultaneously.
for example, 1) we record stereo drums..
#1-Drums L
#2-Drums R
#3-Blank
#4-Blank
2) we record guitar (MONO) on #3 while listening to #1,2 as "guide drums".
3) we record bass (MONO) on #4, while listening to #1,2,3 as "guide drum/guitar"
so what if you wanna record vocals and listen to all guitar/bass/drums? that's where you "MIXDOWN" all 4 tracks into a new "guitardrumbass.wav(STEREO)" and arm them to :
#1-guitardrumbass (LEFT).wav
#2-guitardrumbass (RIGHT).wav
#3-blank
#4-blank
then that leaves you room to record vocals and back vocals. etc etc, the rest you gotta read the manual. Zoom or citymusic doesn't pay me for this hahah..
and regarding the poor feedback about preamp, yes I've read about it. there's a professional studio or something that actually reviewed INTENSIVELY. running through analyzers and all that weird stuff beyond my understanding, but basically layman saying : noisy preamp. not to replace the real deal preamp.
as a former user of Behringer (EW! EW! I know i know, thats what some of you say) preamp, i think this zoom one can pass la.. sounds okay in my mp3s.
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