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As "Flounder" said
Friday, 28 August 2009 23:30in _Animal House_:
"...this is gonna be GREAT!"
While not really so much a heavy test as a reconnaissance mission, I put the ZoomH4 (my new digital recorder) thru a couple of paces just now, in anticipation of trying to use it tomorrow at Constellation Books.
I tried the onboard mics, and then my two current faves (for gigging) externally.
I just used a bit of guitar and a chorus from a song I'm working on, that has some nuance and a little bit of kick to it, and did a couple of takes recording it using some very standard settings and a very close approximation to what will be my mic-ing.
Even tho I used my practice guitar and a song I'm far from good at yet, I can tell that this rig is really going to shine, without alot of hard effort, and only get better from there.
I recorded at 44kh 16bit as opposed to the Minidisc (which I forget, but is lower), and OMG, I can hear a real, tangible improvement in clarity and nuance. The MD recordings sounded great, but the ones that are coming now are going to be even greater. This was just a noisy trash take, and the sound I got on the recording was as good as some of my studio takes.
And then, all I had to do was turn it off and plug it into the computer via the USB and it was just a matter of find and click to import the file into Audacity and hear it and, if I want to, edit it. It was just that easy.
I'm not used to just that easy.
Okay, there *is* one thing that I can complain about:
In order to access the toy from the computer and do the import tricks, I need to be on the Windows partition, 'cause that's where all the Audio Tech lives, and where it works better.
But it works, totally works, so boo frickin' hoo, I'll have to suffer with that.
My glee at this is making my hands shake, and I've only begun to explore what it can do.
But you know what? If it just keeps doing this, this nice and this easy, I'll take it!
"...this is gonna be GREAT!"
While not really so much a heavy test as a reconnaissance mission, I put the ZoomH4 (my new digital recorder) thru a couple of paces just now, in anticipation of trying to use it tomorrow at Constellation Books.
I tried the onboard mics, and then my two current faves (for gigging) externally.
I just used a bit of guitar and a chorus from a song I'm working on, that has some nuance and a little bit of kick to it, and did a couple of takes recording it using some very standard settings and a very close approximation to what will be my mic-ing.
Even tho I used my practice guitar and a song I'm far from good at yet, I can tell that this rig is really going to shine, without alot of hard effort, and only get better from there.
I recorded at 44kh 16bit as opposed to the Minidisc (which I forget, but is lower), and OMG, I can hear a real, tangible improvement in clarity and nuance. The MD recordings sounded great, but the ones that are coming now are going to be even greater. This was just a noisy trash take, and the sound I got on the recording was as good as some of my studio takes.
And then, all I had to do was turn it off and plug it into the computer via the USB and it was just a matter of find and click to import the file into Audacity and hear it and, if I want to, edit it. It was just that easy.
I'm not used to just that easy.
Okay, there *is* one thing that I can complain about:
In order to access the toy from the computer and do the import tricks, I need to be on the Windows partition, 'cause that's where all the Audio Tech lives, and where it works better.
But it works, totally works, so boo frickin' hoo, I'll have to suffer with that.
My glee at this is making my hands shake, and I've only begun to explore what it can do.
But you know what? If it just keeps doing this, this nice and this easy, I'll take it!
