I wish I knew about your channel years ago; I would have saved myself many heartaches and headaches, as the manual leaves a lot to be desired! Thank you again for your wonderful tutorials!!
I've been a Zoom user for 4 years now - first with the HD16, then 2 years with the R24. It's an amazing piece of kit - The Beatles had nothing as good as this in Abbey Rd, and for around £300 it really is a miracle! Thanks for these excellent learning vids - there's always something to learn!!!
A really good series of videos to explain the Zoom R24. I have only just ordered one but seeing these recordings has given me confidence to approach it with enthusiasm . These explanations are really clear and pretty comprehensive and cover all issues from the simple to the complicated . I wish all teachers were this clear. Thank you.
This is brilliant information and personal advice from an R24 user. I have only recently acquired one of these devices myself, but after a lifetime spent using Roland Boss recording machines I must say that the processes involved between the two makes are quite a bit different! Is is very helpful that you cover some of the little quirks and foibles of the Zoom that are often not included in the manuals or manufacturer produced videos. I have learned much from this video and I thank you!
I can't believe you took such pains to explain the R24 I'm now " zooming " in on the purchase of one. I left off recording with a Tascam 4track 6 years ago ( which I wrung dry ) So with your great tutorials I can now get back to tracking songs again! 🎵🤖🎶🤖🎵🎶🔔🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I don't often comment on You Tube videos but I seriously want to thank you for taking the time to do this labor of love. I go back to the old Teac 4 track cassettes and digital recording is very daunting for an old geezer like me. I'm very old school, plug in and play. Reading manuals, asking for directions, etc.......I don't do well with that LOL! These videos are extremely helpful to me as I begin recording again with my new Zoom R24. I'm picking up a lot of great tips. Some of it is intuitive, a lot of it is not....like changing from 4/4 to 3/4. Who thought that one up? IT'S RIGHT THERE! I CAN SEE IT! WHY CAN'T I CHANGE IT? LOL! I figured that one out finally. Anyway, thanks again! I'll be coming back here a lot I'm sure. Cheers!
Hey man, just wanted to thank you for putting this series out there. Just pulled the trigger and got one last week, about to go cut some basic tracks tonight; pretty confident about that but will definitely be watching more as I get deeper into the ridiculous amount of things this unit seems capable of. Really informative and well presented; I've been recording on everything from Portastudios to 2" Ampexes for over 30 years, but even the instances where you're explaining things I already know about don't make my eyes glaze over. Well done all around. It's been said before, but Zoom should absolutely hire you to do these things.
Thank you SO much for your videos! Life saver! I bought the Zoom R16, as I know I won't need anything more than that for what I am doing. The manual was driving me crazy, and it's always best to watch someone explaining things. It seems more or less similar to the R16 so the explanations are great, as I couldn't find much tutorial wise on the R16. This has been a fantastic help, so thank you!
True dat Andii and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment - really chuffed that the videos are of such use and great to know that I'm helping folk to record their stuff - these are great devices as soon as you get comfortable around them and understand how they operate! Best wishes, Darren
Thanks for responding back. Yeah I have only been used to analogue recording in the past on old Tascams, but this has been a great learning experience, and you explain things very clear, so thanks again mate. Cheers.
Excellent videos, thank you! I was quite partial to the table cloth actually. However, I think your little horns which come and go as you move your head on this video are even better than the table cloth. You just cannot disappoint us with your videos, whatever you do! Keep going and cheers.
I just bought one of these R24's - and thankfully I found your excellent series of youtube videos about the device. I feel like your videos are custom-made for me because I just don't get a lot out of reading these tedious, incomplete manuals. Watching the vids have helped me immensely...thank you very much for all the time and effort you expended on our behalf - bill
njjazz2002 You are very welcome and that was precisely my reason for doing these videos in the first place - so no one else had to go through all the grief of reading manuals and combing the internet forums like I had to do - hateful. Why not pull everything you have learned all into one place and SHOW people so they can SEE how it's done?! Great feedback and thanks for your comment.
Sure - fire away! I can't promise I'm going to be able to answer them all but I will try my best and others may also learn from the questions you have.
...(cont.) computer via the USB cable and put it in "card reader mode" so it appears on your laptop (p105) and then just drag and drop the files you need into your CD burning software of choice. For a thorough tutorial on how to mix down to a finished stereo master track on the R24 itself, this will be the subject of one of my next videos (probably Part 6 in the series) so stay tuned!
This is very ,very interesting and pretty easy .The sound for what it is in the video ,having a good set of speakers you would hear good sound quality and using as Shure 58 or a Sennheiser E -935 will give a good Vocal Recording. Recording directly in to the board sounds good .Keep sending out more info on this product .I will purchase this R 24 with my partner within the next two to three weeks ,for we have a lot in mind to do, as he already has a good key key board and a voice harmonizer machine and a excellent set of speakers for play back purposes.
Hey Moe, you are very welcome and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Your best bet for live recording is to try and get a direct feed from the main FOH desk. You can tap into the desk in a variety of ways, the optimum being a direct out from each channel on the desk to each channel on the R24. If your desk doesn't have direct outs on each channel then you can sometimes use one of the inserts on each channel, push your 1/4" connector in just half way and this then behaves (cont.)
Thanks for putting these tutorials together, they are super helpful! I have a question about the metronome feature that I'm hoping you know the answer to... I'm trying to record a song with a click track using the built in metronome. The song changes back and fourth a few times between 3/4 time signature at one tempo, and 4/4 in a different tempo. Is it possible to program the click track to do this? I found out how to use the track sequencer to set the points where the time signature changes, but I can't figure out how to have different tempos in the different sections.
Warning, be careful with stereo linking! It took me losing about ten tracks to figure this out. If you swap a stereo linked pair into an unlinked track the data is erased on both tracks. If you swap an unlinked mono channel to a linked channel you will lose your data. In the manual it says you can’t unlink but is not clear that you can’t because your track will be gone. This is a big flaw in my opinion. I lost hours of good takes to this problem. It’s easy to make this mistake when swapping tracks which you have to do to use the internal mics
I tried this. It did not delete my recorded stereo, or mono tracks. They are still on the memory card, and you can select them as your track playback source. The trick is, that tracks recorded in stereo, can not be loaded into a mono (unlinked) channel. And also tracks that were originally recorded in mono, can't be loaded into a stereo linked channel. The only way to unlink stereo ch is to bounce them to mono tracks (if that is possible).
Stereo linking ******* sucks. I find zero use for it ever. ST hard pans all my tracks to my left speaker output I can’t change that. And I can’t swap the tracks to another channel regardless if the channel is set to ST. I have to activate ST on another channel to be able to move the track and it still takes up two channels since it must be ST activated first. It just sucks ass. I get the same results with mono tracks and a little elbow grease. I recommend leaving it off always.
The battery powering the date/time is an important alert you make. If the device is powered off from the outlet, it will in time reset the date/time - after a few minutes.
PS: I see from the owners manual for your mixer, each channel has it's own insert point - most mixers allow you to use these alternatively as direct outs by simply inserting your 1/4" cable half way in to the first click which taps the signal for the channel and sends it out of the desk. Please double check this with Yamaha or with your manual before you try it as I am not fully familiar with your particular mixer - this is how I do it with my Mackie.
OK Moe, with that set up I would still run everything through the mixer and then take direct feeds off each channel into each channel of the R24 (if you can). At my count you have 3 vocal mics, a stereo pair from the drum machine, you can mic the two guitar cabs and DI the bass (depending on the amp) giving you coincidentally 8 sources in total which is perfect for the R24. You can then let your desk take care of the live sound while your R24 just sits there chugging away recording (cont.)
@Floyd Steinberg sir, are you audio engineer? Can zoom r24 change the humbucker pickup tone to the single coil by using parametric eq in display mode or amp eq in insert effect mode? If can, would you please give me the detail of the parameter and patch setting.... tq sir...
Ok John - the first thing you need to do is to mix all your tracks down to one stereo file either on the R24 itself or in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) on a computer. You have 3 options of transferring data from the R24 to your laptop / computer for authoring CD's - either take the SD card out and put it in your computer (p101 of the manual), dump the required files on the R24 to a USB stick and put this in your computer (p107) or connect your R24 directly to your (cont.)...
I've been going through your video's, the manual, and other tutorials, and have spent a lot of time, maybe my brain is scrambled. My question is pretty simple, I hope the answer isn't a simple "cant do it". On my old Roland VS 880, the inputs could be routed to different tracks. I have 4 stereo units plugged into the back of the R-24, and the 1/4" jacks are tough to plug in and unplug. Is there a way in the R-24 to switch inputs to different tracks than they are plugged in. Many thanks for your service to independent musicians!
Phillip VanGarrick Sorry Phillip but "you can't do it"! On the R24 the inputs are mapped directly to the corresponding tracks but, in the interests of being helpful there are a few ways around this. First, once your track is recorded you can then re-assign that to another track or use the "swap" function to move it over to another of the 24 tracks and free up your original track / input. Second, you could use a small sub-mixer outside the R24 to send direct outs to the inputs of your R24 and then use the routing options that the external mixer provides to decide what to send where. These are both work-arounds - not ideal and will probably only assist you in part but thought I'd mention them anyway. There are no other routing options within the R24 that I am aware of. I hope this helps and thanks for your comment, Darren.
I tuned the stereo link on for tracks 5 and 6 of a recording and they both disappeared! Turned it off and no change. No levels indicated. Tried both faders. Found the track son Audacity so they're still there, just muted! Any clues welcome, it's a big project. Thanks
Can r24 copy and paste from one track to another? What if you want your exactly same guitar backing phrase recorded in two tracks so that you can pan those two to right and left?
I love the R 24 for recording and arranging but am having trouble with the files not being recognized they are ZDT files? The manual says it uses wave files? I’m confused and frustrated that I can’t get the files on a DAW. Any suggestions?
Again what a great help this is...I have a problem with undoing the stereo links...on Pan/Eq menu the stereo link option in not available anymore so I can't take it off... Actually I'm left with only four choiced (Pan Fader Rev Send and Cho Send) for the stereo tracks And there is no way I can get the green lights...only yellows or no lights something wrong with the device or with me ? Thanks for your help
Hey Moe - your Yamaha mixer IS your FOH desk. You could take a direct feed from the instruments into the R24 using your outboard effects and I don't see any problem with this (other than trying to keep your levels under control) but personally, I would still prefer to run everything through the desk, this way you're bringing everything up to line level which is what the direct outs / inserts send out and you will have much more control over everything. Either way should work fine.
+Michael Marrelli No Michael, I'm afraid not and it is one of the limitations of the device - it is not a workstation as such, more a recorder with some basic editing features on board. For anything more involved, you need a DAW.
Nice Info! Thanks! I just bought an R24 and have a question @ track-linking. I linked tracks 1&2, but I can't UNLINK them! When I go back into the pan/EQ, my menu DOES NOT show the link on/off option! My screen only shows (top to bottom) TRACK 1/2, PAN, FADER, REV SEND, and lastly CHO SEND. You unlinked tracks very easily, but I have not been able to unlink my tracks! Please help! Thanks!
Hi, brilliant series of videos.👍 I've been trying to save my songs to a memory stick. I just want the final mastered track, however I'm saving the whole track and project. Can you help explain where I'm going wrong. It's so frustrating.. I appreciate your time. Thanks in advance.
Hi Richard - I'm no expert on this as I have never saved my stuff to the stick directly on the device so if you have access to a PC / laptop then take what you want off your memory card there and then save what you want to your stick on the PC - as for doing it directly, I think it just dumps everything on to the stick so not sure you can choose what to save and what to leave.
Connect with usb. You can open the r24 audio file within the project and find the master track within the folder (with the single tracks). I’m not sure why you cant do just the master track but you can always delete them if you don’t want them. Honestly though its nice to have the tracks backed up.
I have a question on the memory card space. So if I want it to erase after every recording is it possible for me to just record it, put it onto a memory stick transfer it to computer and then retake and record over top of the old one. or would that be really confusing at the end because I would be using all eight tracks at once and I would want all eight separate when I put it onto my computer
You can do this Ken but, as you've identified, keep your file management simple and use file naming that means something to you - easiest solution is get a large memory card which are very cheap nowadays and then space won't be an issue for you. Just start a new project each time you want to record a new song.
Can it do 5/4, 7/8, 3/4, etc easily and switch between in a song? RE: 30:00- I think using your own file for metronome- this would allow you to use a live drum track etc (with feel) as the project time base and not be tied to dry set exact tempo. No wait that does not make sense- why use metronome at all in that case? Ok anyway- very interested in this device but some reports that timing drifts if you need to bring longer tracks to another platform. Very subtle though 0.25sec/hr drift. Thx.
Sorry Clifford, I can't really help you on this one as it is not really a feature I use - we have a live drummer. I know it can do different time signatures but I'm not sure how you set this up - there is tons of information on this on the Zoom Forum US so I'd suggest you do a search there and hopefully you will get the information you need for your project.
The metronome section in the R24's instruction book has no information about how to set a time signature, ie. how many eighth notes or quarter notes in a measure. I was hoping to get that from this video, but it's not addressed here, either.
(cont.) as a direct out (check the manual for your desk as they do differ). Failing this, you can use any of the aux outs or stereo outs on the desk but you are then losing true multi-track recording capability limiting your options later on down the line. As you only have 8 recording inputs on the R24, you will also need to sub mix your drums if you are using a fully-mic'd acoustic kit so you'll need to think about how you want to do this as there are many different ways (cont.)
I don't know if you can answer this (I couldn't find the answer elsewhere online). How do I transfer .wav files to the R24? I want to build the bare bones of a track - drums, keyboards in my DAW - and then transfer stuff recorded in the DAW to the R24 - so I can hear the bare bones track as I record vocals, bass and guitar on the R24. I will then move the r24 recordings back to the DAW for the final mix, but I'm stuck on transferring stuff from the DAW to R24.
Thank you for your video, very clear. I have a question. I have R24 and I use the Stereo Link active for a Keyboard (2 channels) and for a piano (2 channels) and I find that when I activate the Stereo Link the audio quality through headsets is much higher than without the Stereo Link. So this is perfect for me. I also have a R16 and Q8, and in both I have activated the Stereo Link to get same quality. However I just bought a Zoom U24, to record the audio with my IPhone, and when I connect the R24 to the U24 the quality I get through monitors and headsets is very poor, exactly the same I get without stereo link in the R24. Do you know why this happens in Zoom products, and if there is any way to get a better audio quality in the A24, since it does not have a menu to configure the Stereo Link mode. Thank you in advanced!
Can I at least delete specific portions of a project and/or erase portions of it with accuracy. If so in which of your very useful videos is that information?
Hey topdazzle. Greetings from Denmark and thanks for the nice videos. I hope i can make myself understanable cause i have a problem i need help with. My band and myself would like to record 2 guitars, 1 drumset, 1 bass guitar, and 1 vokal. We wish to do this from inserting the insturments into the r24 from the output on the amplifier. So we want to avoid the use of microphones. We tried this tonight and it sounded crap. So my question is: Is it possible to record rock music (distorted electric guitars etc) into the r24 directly and avoid recording threw microphones? I hope you have the time to answer my question. Kind regards Tobias
Hey Tobias - not sure I fully understand all of your question and I need some more information before I can comment properly on this. For example, what kind of amps are you using and what are the line-outs like? Why would you not want to mic a guitar amp when it is widely accepted that this is the best possible way to capture a decent guitar sound? How can you plug your drum kit directly into the R24 without using mice (unless you have an electronic kit)? Etc, etc. - it sounds to me more like you are doing something wrong with the mic'ing or using dodgy cheap equipment but it's hard to tell without full details on what it is you are using, why it's sounding crap and what you are trying to achieve. In short, I play in a 5 piece rock band with 2 guitars (which are always mic'd into the R24), a bass (which is always DI'd), acoustic drum kit (which is always mic'd) and two vocal mics (straight into the R24 or via the desk). If you let me know more then maybe I can help you with a few suggestions. Best wishes, Darren
topdazzle What i wish to achive is the ability to record single track while the entire band plays. We make our own material so in the procces making of creatin a new song its beneficial to be able to work with the song mutli track after practice. At the moment we tried plugging the guitars and bass from the output on the amplifiers directly into R24 and it worked pretty well. I think its just a matter of setting the output "volume" (im not sure its called that in english) from the amplifier correctly so it dont get to high and becomes clipped. The drums we have mics on that goes into a mixing table (again my english might be lacking another word) that has an output that we put into the r24. The vocal goes in mic directly into r24. Recording like this into single track just seems more handy and atm we are not looking for the "perfect" sound.Just a decent one to be able to listen to the new material we make before its a complete song. When we decide the song is ready we will record it in studio. Just wanted to know if the r24 can handle instruments being set directly into it without loosing to much sound quality.
If the instruments are going into the R24 via a line-out from an amp then you should be fine - just don't plug the instruments directly into the R24 (other than Input 1) as the impedance's will not match and it will sound crap. Make sure you set your gain correctly on each channel of the R24 and you're good to go!
Hello, just a quick question that I have about actual files recorded on the SD card. If I record SIMULTANEOUSLY from, say, 3 sources, live, when I transfer data to my computer, do they become one file or three separate ones? I mean, are they automatically blended together by the recorder/mixer while saving or will I be able to view all tracks separately. Thanks in advance for your reply, great tutorials!
I have to confess that this is an area that I have not dabbled in thus far but I gather it's as easy as either putting them on a USB stick and loading them into your R24 that way or directly connecting your R24 to your computer and putting it into disk mode (or whatever it's called) and dragging and dropping. You need to make sure that the naming convention of the files is preserved so the R24 will recognise them and also make sure that once imported, you assign the files to tracks to (cont.)
These are excellent tutorials. Relating to the sterio link item. I have followed those instuction's but when I try to play back I only have sound from the right side monitor. Any advice please?
Hey Richard and thanks for your feedback and question - it's a little hard without knowing what monitoring options you are using but it sounds to me like its either a panning issue or the lead you have plugged in is a mono rather than stereo lead. Take a look at both of these things first.
Thank you so much, T-D! I plan to follow through on all, as I'm graduating from a very old Zoom to this one. 24 tracks- wow! When you mix them all down do you hear all banks as you master?
Hey Nancy and thanks for the comment. Yes, when you are mixing down, you hear everything that is lit green when you master and that can include tracks on bank 2 or bank 3 also, giving you the full 24 tracks to play with. The only time you need to switch banks is when you want to adjust individual tracks that are on a different bank to the one you are currently working with. I hope this helps (and don't forget to pay attention to my tips on fader travel and fader values when you switch banks as this could also catch you out until you get your head around what is happening - this is all explained in one of my other videos - the one where I start sat in my son's bedroom just talking the camera - can't remember which Part in the series this is). Best wishes.
Thanks for the wonderful and very useful videos, could not get better instruction anywhere else. we'd like to use R24 for live recording, with all the instruments and vocal with their effect as is, what would you suggest be the best way doing live recording.
Hello there thanks for the vids there very helpful but two things been baffling me 1) you can do a pre count before record but say you have a pickup measure if get me like a bit of vocal before main measures kick in and your song has different tempos within the same song 2) playing to a metronome for making a drum track later on (or before) say you wanna record all you need is love by Beatles for instance which switches different time signatures within the song but a lot in the intro alone as well .... sorry if these are baffling to you but am seriously scratching my head ha because is the answer for both, just get really good at playing to a metronome in your head so you don’t need to play to a tempo track and play whatever tempos you want within the same song etc? But if you do it that way I take it, it will be hard to assign a drum track later on or if you have done an accurate job then it will be quite easy but it’s confusing me a lot like and I hope this message hasn’t confused you ha
Thanks a lot for these vids - splendid work! Just bought me a R24 and they are really help- and useful! Do you have any advise on how to place and mic el.guitar amp , ak guitar amp, base amp and singing in a live recording in one room so the sound from each amp don´t bleed to much into the other mics ?
Alas Stefan - some mic bleed is inevitable if you are all in one room and recording at the same time (although I've found the vocal mic suffers worse bleed from a drum kit than other guitars). Close-mic'ing and making sure you are using directional mics that you are familiar with their pick-up pattern is the only real way around this (and that will only get rid of so much bleed rather than eliminate it all together).
Thanks for q answer! We will record without drums (as we are now a 3-man drumless band :) ) . Would you still prefer a live recording via amps rather than line even though you will have some mick bleed?
Personally yes - well, certainly for guitars (I always DI the bass) - a huge part of the sound with guitars comes from the amp and cab combination and you lose this entirely if you record direct (unless you are using a cab simulator). The sound is then too sterile in my opinion but you may prefer it that way - try both and see which works best for your ears. The bleed is not really an issue in the final mix down. Another option is to record each part separately (using headphones so everyone knows where they are in the song) and that way there will be no bleed at all.
(cont.) everything multi-track. As long as your input gain for each channel on the R24 is set correctly and is not clipping (as with any input on the R24) then it should sound great (this is how I do it with the band). Oh, and the part on mixing and mastering is already done - it's Part 5 in the series. Cheers, Darren
You know the stuff and how to communicate. Killer combination! I record my keyboard or vocals to 2 independent tracks (no St Link) and then I can adjust levels, PAN, EQ the 2 channels independently. With St Link, none of this is possible. What's the benefit of St Link?
From what I can recall, the only real benefit of stereo-linking tracks is to have them behave as one track for simplicity / ease of use (they will also appear in your DAW as one stereo track) - this way you are only then having to use one fader, things are applied equally to each, etc. Doing it your way is fine too - it's whatever works for you. Things like keyboards send out stereo signals that are related to one another and so it would make sense to me to keep them that way rather than split them to two independent tracks (although I don't play keyboard so I am only guessing!). The same for guitar multi-effect processors, etc.
Hi Darren, Thanks for the links. unfortunately we don't have a FOH desk, we just have to do with my Yamaha Mixer and I'll have to see if the insert half way will work. For the guitar and other instruments I take it from the wet output directly from device to the R-24 bypassing the mixer. But for vocals and drum machine I used the mixer. Do you see any problem with this setup? Best Wishes, Moe
I was struggling with this , But watching your videos breaks it down to a very simple way to use it. Thank you. Can you just play the drum pads? if so how can you do that. you should do a video on that.
Greg Jay Hey Greg and thanks for the comment - glad the vids are useful. As for your query, the answer is "yes, you can play the drum pads" but this involves the use of the Track Sequencer which is covered in depth in one of my other videos in this series.
topdazzle okay I got it slowly but surly now I need to import my music to cubase .please do a video about doing this. Because so far I can not find one. I don't know how to do this. help?
Hey and thanks for the question - just pop your SD card into your computer, drag and drop the WAV file onto the card into a project folder (easiest way is to format the card in the R24 so it sets up a file structure it will recognise, start a blank project and then drop the WAV file into this folder on the card). Don't change the file structure or the R24 won't recognise it or be able to read the card. Pop the card back into the R24 with the WAV file on it, then go into the Track menu, select "Assign" and pick the Track that you want to assign the WAV file to - simples!
(cont.) otherwise your drums alone will use up all your recording inputs. If you need more in depth advice than this then just PM me on RU-vid with more details of your set up (type of desk, number of mics / instruments / drums / etc. and I'll try to give you some more specific advice. Hope this helps and thanks again, Darren.
I've just unwrapped my R8, without any manual bought on eBay. Could someone tell me... Is it possible to sample from a source such as CD, I'm sure it has to.. able to chop it up and add it to my drum pattern.
+Michael Turner Sure - just connect your stereo out (or headphone socket) from your CD player to the R8. Sadly, the editing capabilities of the R8 / R16 / R24 are extremely limited (that's not what it is designed for) and is one of its major shortcomings so any "chopping up" should really be done on a DAW. Hope this helps!
Hi! Great videos on the r24. They are super helpful. So again thank you! In this vid you mention that your bands drummer connects v-drums to the r24. Im trying the same here but I only get a very weak signal going in to the r24, and even though I have stereolinked two tracks it only comes out in mono (only sound in one ear on my headphones). The drums work fine on their own with headphones. I tried the hi-z setting but it didnt make any difference. Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks again! /Gustav
You don't need the Hi-Z for a start - have this set to "off". If your V-Drum module has a line-out then use this (you can also use the headphone out) - if it's a single 3.5mm jack then you will need a cable that splits into two 1/4 inch jacks to go into the back of the R24 - one channel for left and one for right. If it's two outs from the drum module then use a separate cable for each. Set the levels on the R24 for "line level" to start with and increase the gain from there - if anything, the only problem you should be having with this is that the signal is too hot rather than the other way around. Hope this helps.
@@topdazzle thank you for answering so quickly! I will try a split cable. I was going from a 3,5 directly to only one connection, so only one track was responding according to the "light ladder". Thanx again!
Another outstanding tutorial , Topdazzle ! Thank you for making these videos , it's SO appreciated ! I'm not mechanically inclined , so it's much easier watching you take us through the learning process than attempting to work with the manual ( which left me with a case of brain-destruction ! ) . The only part of this video that I didn't grasp was 5:30- 8:45 about the fader value . Is that relevant to the R8 that I'm using , or specific to the R24 ? Also , do you recommend watching all these videos sequentially ? For instance if I'm recording a new project and want to start with drum patterns , should I skip ahead or watch all the tutorials first to have a full understanding before recording ? Many thanks ! :)
Hi Sean - thanks for the comments and feedback (and +1 on the manual!!). The fader value should be the same on the R8 as well as the R24 (as you have 8 tracks but only 2 faders). The point I was making is that when you slide the fader to a position you are assigning a value to that channel of somewhere between 0 (fader at bottom of travel) and 100 (fader set to max at the very top of its travel). When you then change to the next bank of 8 tracks (on the R24), move the fader and return to the first bank, the value that was set at the beginning does not now match where the fader is on its course of travel (cos you've moved it). The R24 needs to be told where the fader is exactly (between top and bottom of travel) before it knows what value to assign to that track and the way you do this is by moving it. As soon as you move a fader, the R24 now knows where it is and assigns the corresponding value accordingly. Not sure if that helps or makes things worse!! If it were me, I would watch them in order as I try to increase the complexity as the videos progress and even with drum patterns, you are going to need to know how to do the basics before you can even tackle the drums section. Having said that - hey, I'm a free spirit to watch them how you want!! lol
I am very much enjoying your videos and have subscribed. I have a question about the effects. I know most multitrack recorders effects are used in mixing down or for mastering, but I want to know if any effects can be used in a live situation? I know the quality will not be as good as a stand alone option but cost is a factor. For example compression for vocalist or reverb for bass. We would love to add effects for some of our band members but in Thailand it is very expensive. Can the effects be heard through the monitor output as a make shift real time option until some more money can be saved by these guys? Kind of kill two birds thing for the time being if possible.
Very much along the lines of the live desk options you were talking about around the 12 minute mark, I only want to know if the effects would go through as well. :)
Yes Joshua - you can use the effects in real time as you suggest and the quality is actually very good. Your limiting factor will be that (other than reverb and chorus / delay effects which are available on every track / input all of the time) you may want to be using one of the superb insert effects which, depending on what effect you want, can only be used in one place at a time. Having said this, the 8 x comp EQ effect allows you to use this effect on all 8 inputs at once. There are some others that allow you to use them on multiple inputs at once (dual mic for example) but there are also a lot (like all of the distortion effects for guitar) that you can only use on one input at a time. Bear in mind that you will need the insert effect switched on and applied to the correct INPUT (my emphasis), not TRACK. If you choose one of the mastering effects and apply it to the Master track then it will effect your whole mix which might be something else of interest. As long as your tracks are armed for record (they don't have to actually be recording) then you will hear all of the effects being applied in real time - it works really well and will certainly get you by for now as long as you are aware of the limitations I've just mentioned. Hope this helps and thanks for the kind comments! Best wishes, Darren
topdazzle Understood and thank you very much for a perfectly clear explanation. Again thank you for the videos, you have the most clear and comprehensive review and tutorial available for this device, and something this advanced needs hours not minutes. Don't let anyone ever tell you to cut the time down, you simply can't remove any of that information. Also great ACDC covers! All the covers were great, but the ACDC guitars were dead on.
LOL - thanks Joshua and you're right - it's hard to get through all of this stuff "briefly" without either missing out some crucial information or confusing people so I'll stick to the plan! Hopefully folk can make use of the quick links in the video descriptions to go straight to the part that interests them rather than moan about how much I go on!! I also think it's really important to explain "why" you would want to do something rather than just the "how" part on the R24 - this helped me to understand things much better and for it to sink in. Thanks for your comment on the AC/DC covers - much appreciated - we're doing Thunderstruck next!! Happy New Year!
Thanks for this video. One thing: when I stereo linked after recording, the tracks went silent, even when I unlinked again. The tracks were still on the SD card, but could not be heard on the Zoom (R16) anymore.
Sounds like they have somehow become unassigned from the track - just go back in to the track menu if the files are still present on the card and select assign to re-assign them to whatever track you want - I hope that helps.
Thank you for taking the time with elaborate explanation, I am grateful. Our setup is simple; Yamaha EMX-5000 mixer which we use for vocals (3 mics) and a drum machine (Keyboard), 2 Guitars, Base, and a Keyboard have their own independent amps. We occasionally have a Drummer and I realize for that we may have to do sub-mixing. We tried line outs from the amps and mixer with live effects. Is that OK? Also I am anxiously waiting for your next video about mixed-down and Mastering. Cheers, Moe
Perhaps I'm a bit impatient. Your videos are terrific, but if we could get to actually learning how to use it and maybe shorten the Smalltalk I think it would attract a lot of people. I hope you don't mind me saying this. You have been very generous and offering us your knowledge thank you
Paul - thanks a lot for your comment and I really appreciate the feedback (taking it in the very gracious spirit of which it was intended). The truth is, I probably agree with you! However, I get more feedback thanking me for my friendly and personable style, making what can be a difficult subject for some people to master more accessible. In addition, I think it's absolutely vital (for my intended audience) that the concepts behind the techincal mastery are very carefully explained in order that it can sink in more readily. For folk like you who don't need all of that, I have provided quick links in the description of every video so you can cut through the waffle and jump straight to the bit that interests you. I can't please everyone but again, I thank you for your feedback - always welcome when it is put across in the right way! Good luck with your R24!!
