Zoom Q2n-4K Video/Audio Recorder
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:18 pm
Hi, All!
I got myself a Zoom audio/video recorder at GC since I had an xmas gift card burning a hole in my pocket. I've been wanting a way to effectively record short videos for sharing since back in the old AGF days. Cell phones actually take really great video, and their audio recording is not particularly bad. I am always quite satisfied with concert videos I take, and that's impressive considering the variety of dynamic range it has to cover.
Anyway, the challenge as I saw it was to be able to get external audio to record with my cell phone videos so that you didn't get 90% string clatter along with 10% amp/room sound. I researched how to best do this with an iPhone, and bought some parts to make the necessary connections. No dice. No matter what I do, my phone records using its own microphone(s).
The Zoom recorder clearly has an external audio in function, so I was eyeing it at the start of the pandemic when I was bored. But since it's a Zoom product it was out of stock everywhere (took me a while to make the connection between Zoom as an audio recording device company and Zoom as the new global norm for interacting with people virtually).
So far so good! The onboard condenser mic sounds great and it's really easy to get good video and audio quality. I'm about to put it to the test by collaborating with some former bandmates on playing a song together virtually.
Here's a link to a video I posted on Facebook.
I got myself a Zoom audio/video recorder at GC since I had an xmas gift card burning a hole in my pocket. I've been wanting a way to effectively record short videos for sharing since back in the old AGF days. Cell phones actually take really great video, and their audio recording is not particularly bad. I am always quite satisfied with concert videos I take, and that's impressive considering the variety of dynamic range it has to cover.
Anyway, the challenge as I saw it was to be able to get external audio to record with my cell phone videos so that you didn't get 90% string clatter along with 10% amp/room sound. I researched how to best do this with an iPhone, and bought some parts to make the necessary connections. No dice. No matter what I do, my phone records using its own microphone(s).
The Zoom recorder clearly has an external audio in function, so I was eyeing it at the start of the pandemic when I was bored. But since it's a Zoom product it was out of stock everywhere (took me a while to make the connection between Zoom as an audio recording device company and Zoom as the new global norm for interacting with people virtually).
So far so good! The onboard condenser mic sounds great and it's really easy to get good video and audio quality. I'm about to put it to the test by collaborating with some former bandmates on playing a song together virtually.
Here's a link to a video I posted on Facebook.