Have a little Zoom, Tascam, Olympus, etc., but feel like your recordings don't sound as good as they should? You're in the right place. In part one of the series, we'll talk about finding the optimal settings.
Hey man, been watching a few of your videos lately. Just ordered a H4n and then a mate sent me the link to this. Thanks heaps. Exactly what I needed right now!
Josh has the best sound. He knows how to use the Zoom devices. Listen to some of his music. During covid I would hear some big name artist recording at home and some of them were very disappointing.
The most asked Q is about the mic. The next should be your strategy for making licks on guitar when playing chords. Do you think in scale of the song, use the notes of the chord, have a learned lick from before, basically how do you do your guitar playing? That's a topic.
Hey Josh! I asked you about this a while back. I'm about to get started with this RU-vid thing and I just bought a brand new Blue Yeti! I will use this video as a reference. I love this new channel idea by the way! It's weird seeing this channel's name because I've gone by JT my whole life lol.
luisthree what some people do, is record themselves clapping or something like that, and then you sync that loud sound (very easy to found in the soundwave) with the image on the vídeo, plus some fine adjustments
I don't know if Zoom made a remote for the H2, but they did make one for it's successor, the H2n. It's not very expensive and may be backwards compatible. www.zoom.co.jp/products/product-accessories/rc2-remote-control-h2n
After hearing so much good stuff come out of this mic I was considering purchasing one, but it is discontinued and you're saying the h2n is not as good. Can you give a suggestion of a similar quality mic for the price?
I have an H2 Zoom. Must be about 7 yrs old. Not sure of the model #. I haven't connected it to my pc for about 18months. The PC worked fine with the Zoom. I was able to make many recordings from the zoom to the PC. I plugged it into my PC today and now my PC doesn't recognize the device. Can you help?
@@tempvariable Thanks for the reply. Everything works now. I made 2 different cd's at home using the Zoom anD my PC. Here are 2 samples. from my "String Sessions" cd; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e5RNMOhgsyQ.html and from my "Bossa Beat" cd; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-83B5THRic9c.html
Hey! I'm way late and you may have figured this out, but I don't think that you can get great results using this device as a mic plugged into a different recorder. I'm not sure why, but I've had the same experience. I think you're better off to either: 1. Use this and record to it internally or 2. Buy a purpose-built microphone with an XLR output and a recorder with an XLR input (Such as the Zoom H4) for better sound.
Can i ask did you ever use your zoom h2 direct, recording into pc daw ? It always appears you use sd card. i never have seen it plugged direct into your pc .wasnt it more work doing it this way when you recorded muti tracks ? Is there a reason why you didn't. Cheers
This is very well done, congrats. I would however suggest that high sample rates are not any indication of "high quality" audio. Human hearing has limits, the mics have limits, reproduction systems have limits. Sampling at 48 khz, for instance, exceeds the limits of all those, so going to a higher sample rate cannot improve any aspect of audio quality. In many cases, and the H2 is one of them, even 24 bit depth doesn't add any audible improvement over 16 bit, since the self-noise of the H2 limits the actual noise floor. One more nit I would pick - please don't call any wide spacing ORTF. ORTF is a carefully researched and precisely defined configuration. The rear mics in the H2 are not remotely close to an ORTF array. Fran
Better late than never for a response - Thanks so much for very close attention. To be fair, I said "More like ORTF," but still, you're quite right, it's not that exact pattern. As for the quality vs sample rate of the audio, I will contest this a bit. If I were to never modify my audio files in any way after recording, I could happily record in 256 or 320kbps mp3, and it would sound excellent, certainly "high quality." However, To have the latitude to go back and (sometimes extensively) edit the audio after recording, it is much better to record at higher sample rates and bit depths. This is why I always record at 24/48 WAV, the same standard used by many recording studios -not because it's audibly higher quality than something at a lower sample rate at the outset, but because it allows me to make a truly "higher quality" finished product. I usually scale down the audio only when it's time to publish.
Thank you so much, Josh! :) I'll be happy if you could help me with my Zoom H2n. You know, it records really terrible sound. And I can't get what's the reason. Here is one of my videos recorded with Zoom H2n ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PTjN20QiB8M.html. I did all how you said in your videos. There are no compressors, limiters or something else. It sounds like I'm playing in a big tube :(
