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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-03-20 08:51
For folks who are using the Zoom H2, how do you listern to your recording. I mean presumably you have to USB it into your PC but do you then just listern to it in front of the computer or do you burn to a disc and play it on a bigger amp.
If you are listerning straight from the PC would you not require a better audio card? Thanks
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-03-20 09:02
I either plug the headphones to the Zoom and listen or connect the Zoom to the computer and listen through the speakers.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-03-20 09:54
You can as well plug in a headphone-to-aux cable and listen to it via your home stereo...
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Ben
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2010-03-20 10:21
use the headphone socket on the device and then just play the file you want.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-03-20 11:02
Thanks, but just to make sure of this, can I take a lead from the phone socket and feed it into the mike socket on my large amp to hear the recording? Is this what you are saying Ben? I ask this odd question because I don`t have my H2 as yet and I thought (apparantly wrong) that the recording was in a format that to hear you had to process thru` a PC.
If this is so,why do people feed to their PCs (unless it is to burn a disc) because there are lots of cheap and better amp and speaker systems than what the PC s have?
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2010-03-20 11:59
The reason you run it into a PC (or way better yet a Mac) is so you can edit in sound programs such as logic, protools or garage band or a free application called audacity. If you can figure out what an audio recording really sounds like, let us know, because What you listen on is almost as important as what you recored with. What ever you listen to music on is what you should listed to your recordings on, NOT because it's the best or most acurate but because you Know what it sounds like. If you're recording stravinsky 3 pieces listen to a few other recordings of the piece on YOUR monitoring set up. Record those to you zoom and listen to them through head phones so you know what your headphones do to your sound. YOGI BERA said it best "Everything changes Everything"
I have the Zoom H2 and H4n and if you put them in a good sounding room, in the right place you can get amazing recordings.
What you can do in the audio programs is splice, edit out long dead time, put tracks in order and free up your memory card.
One of the main things I use my H2 for is this: finding the best place to put my real mics when doing close mic recording of other people. I put head phones in it and monitor the mics and move it around while someone is playing. I've found some really good placement for mics this way. When I find an interesting place I record from that spot and say a note so I have it verbal hint on record.
Tom Puwlaski
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-03-20 13:12
Rusty,
the H2 will act like a standard MP3 player, plus it has the ability to record in good quality. Wherever you can hook your MP3 player onto (via its line out or headphone jack) you can also use the H2. (use the "line in" input rather than the microphone input on your home stereo because of different signal levels/strengths).
Reason people use it on their computers: editing (as stated above), and perhaps lack of good quality stereo equipment in their living room. Or they copy the mp3s (via the device's USB port) onto a memory stick and shove the latter into their stereo. Or they use their headphones anyway in which case it doesn't really matter.
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Ben
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Author: DougR
Date: 2010-03-20 14:04
Tom, that's a really cool way to use the Zoom H2. Thanks for the tip.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-03-20 15:55
You can select the record format in the H2. It can be set to either *.WAV or *.MP3.
wav files fill up the memory very quickly; so I have bought a couple of larger memory cards and record in mp3 format.
My PC's drivers have gone sour, so that I can not download my H2 to my PC through the USB port. I have to remove the memory chip, put it into a USB chip reader and copy the files to my PC.
I play the H2 files through iTunes through the computer using headphones.
It is a slow process, and the H2's memory chip is not handy --you have to remove the foot/mike-stand mount to access it.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2010-03-20 18:13
As said above, if you want to play your H2 through your home stereo, connect the line out/earphone socket on your H2 to the Line In socket on your stereo. The Line In socket on a stereo amp or receiver is often called AUX or sometimes TAPE IN. A home stereo amp rarely has a MICrophone input (unless it is a Karaoke machine.)
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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-03-20 23:05
Thanks all, I note the std. H2 comes with 1/2 Gb card. Approximately how long to fill up the card wav or mp3. This for a little band I play in of about 20 people?
I presume it is easy to format the card while in the H2?
Is the memory card in the recorder a std. shape, because cards are cheap. Is it practical to just pull it out and put in a larger capacity one?
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Author: donald
Date: 2010-03-21 00:03
And here i was, thinking this thread was about some new ligature i hadn't heard about...
dn
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Author: DougR
Date: 2010-03-21 01:35
Rusty, the zoom is ridiculously easy to use, once you read the directions. I upgraded my memory card (it's the same memory card you'd put in a camera) because of the file-size issue, but I'm not doing live music recording, just recording my horn lessons (and 192k mp3 is fine for that).
The thing comes with a lengthy instruction booklet which, if you follow the directions scrupulously, tells you what you need to know.
Any problems I've had with the Zoom have been end-user-originated (that would be ME) rather than generated by the recorder itself.
I just got a Gorilla tripod, which screws right into the bottom of the Zoom and has flexible, bendable legs that let you hang the Zoom from just about anything, or you can bend the legs into a tripod shape and you're good to go.
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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-03-29 06:34
I know someone has been kind enough to answer this query but I can`t find the reply at the moment and I`m about to fire up the H2.
We are 240volt in Aus. and what I can buy is a straight mains transformer with the required 9volt out. I need to know the polarity of the plug going into the H2. They don`t mention this in the booklet. I think I was told it is negative on the inner pin. Is this correct? Russ
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Author: Noqu
Date: 2010-03-29 08:58
Negative inner pin is correct.
I have the AC adaptor of the H4 in front of me (says "Zoom AC Adaptor AD-0006E, equivalent to AD-0003E/0004E", 9V, 300mA) and it clearly indicates with a little diagram that the inner pin is the negative one.
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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-03-29 10:06
Great, thanks for that , I`ll have a closer squint at mine.
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Author: Chris J
Date: 2010-03-29 11:51
Just to confirm for the H2
Mine has the info on the side of the unit, also indicating the inner pin is negative:
Chris
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Author: Chris_C ★2017
Date: 2010-03-29 19:54
I put an 8Gbyte card in the one I use for our band and record WAV in stereo at 256kbps. A 2 hour concert fills a few Gbyte and uses about half of a pair of AA batteries - so i just use new ones each time.
Rather than use the USB interface (which is very slow), I often take the memory card out t put in a card reader - MUCH quicker.
A very easy unit to use and all the recordings to date have been good - i just put the sesnitivity on Medium and turn the AVC on for unsupervised recordings.
A great little unit.
Chris
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