We present new digital composition music and easy solutions with full ideas for musicians at home, especially during this lockdown. We try to suggest affordable alternatives to reach the best sound quality from the devices that most musicians already have.
Where do we do our recording? At home, in a small flat, but we love it!
How do you record your music and voices? We are using Zoom H4N for our audio interface and connect it to Behringer B2 Pro and Behringer C-2. For music, we are using M-Audio OXIGEN 61 MIDI controller and use Cubase with an audio library that we could afford at the moment.
What is your main content? 1. Music videos 2. Music equipment tutorials 3. MusicTutorials for, maybe even music master courses in singing or piano in the future
I found the presentation quite confusing. I’m trying to play a song on my iPad and hard wire a connection to my zoom to record it for greater clarity. It wasn’t clear who was your audio source here, the phone or the H4n? I’m a musician and need the clarity to transcribe the song into sheet music
Hi friends! I can´t conect my Zoom H4N with my macbook. After doing all you say, mi recorder doesn´t appear in MIDI setup. I´m crazy because I can´t get it.
I'd like to record video on my phone with Zoom H4n quality sound - to be clear, is that what this does? (There was no mention of how to adjust settings on phone or H4n to switch audio from phone mics to H4n. I'm using a Pixel 5a with a headphone jack port.)
Thank you for this video. Your video has helped me a lot with connecting my H4N pro with a Samsung S8, though it won't record the sound from the h4n on my phone. The recorder app on my phone just shows a straight line, so there is no audio being registered. When I unplug the jack cable from the h4n output port and touch the cable with my finger, then incoming sound is registered by the recording app on my phone. So the splitter and cables seem to be working fine. When I then replug the jack into the output port on the h4n, then my phone comes with a popup which says "complete action using" and I can choose "Google" or "Bixby Voice". When I then select the "Google" option, then it stops the recording and when I start the recording again, I'm back at square one. Searched on internet already but can't find a solution for this, so was hoping that you maybe have a tip. I will be so happy if I'm able to record video's with the h4n as an external mic 🙂
I'm getting great quality recordings on my laptop with this method, but with my Android phone (Oppo Find X3 Lite), I'm getting a suboptimal quality. Not sure if it's possible to improve or if there are Android smartphones that can do this well? Would love to know, cause I'd love to record in high quality directly to my Android phone!
Will this set up work for tiktok livestreaming? I tried the tascam and it only had mono sound , not stereo. I also couldn't monitor the sound on tiktok. Also, couldn't you just plug the headphone into headphone jack of the h4n? I have a samsung s21 and it doesn't have 3.5mm , just type c so will I have to use a type c to 3.5mm adapter, then put the splitter on top of that?
Hi Chimney, thank you for your question. With Samsung S2, I believe with Tiktok it will be difficult to make it stereo as I don't know if TikTok could configure that kind of advanced setting on Audio. Yes you could use the zoom headphone to monitor it, but TikTok has its own volume control setting which I believe is not open, make sure it is not too overloud for live stream, I had experience with Instalive and it boosted my volume automatically. The best way to monitor is to use another account while you are doing the LS. But if you want to make an advanced setting, try to use a USB C dongle with USB A input for zoom audio interface, it works more stable from my experience
you can try to find it in amazon, but you need to make sure you used he correct one to your phone, as now its not only mini USB but also USB-C, let use know and we could suggest you to our affiliate links
Very informative video, thanks! I notice an issue when i use mono downmix with one microphone connected only. The phantom power is sent to both channel 1 and 2, but 2 is not used and link 1/2 option makes that the gain of channel 2 is same as channel 1, and it creates noise, very disturbing noise. Am i the only one ?
Hello ! How to fixe this problem on the H4N : the left and the right have not the same volume when it's recording in stereo .... How can I do ? The left is too low compare to the right which works correctly. Thanks for your help.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, and I managed to use my Zoom H5 as an external mic with my android cellphone. Just make sure following the order in the video: hooking the adapter first, then the rest; otherwise it won't work, at least in my case.
I am trying to understand how to film a video from my phone, where the sound is not from the phone built-in mics, but from the H4n. So that I won't have to sync it later. Is this method going to work?
Hi Kostas, with our experience, this could work for some mobile phones and not others. What we could suggest is if you have a free return service for the new pieces of stuff that you want to try, it's better to try first and see if it works for you or not. Out of the 5 androids we have, 3 of them are working fine with this method and all of them are quite new devices.
You guys sent the international link with the wrong idea in the comment section. Do it right next time. I gotta return an item now. Thank you for my advice 🙏
