Category: Geeks r Us
I got one of these cute recorders and a pair of sound Professionals in-ear binaural microphones for Christmas, and I'm having a frustrating issue with this thing. Is there a way to monitor what i'm recording with just the microphones plugged in, or a setting on the recorder that will allow me to do this? I'd rather avoid plugging in a set of headphones, which is what i've had to do when using the recorder's internal microphones. I plug in the microphones now, and I hear nothing when the recorder is on stand-by. All suggestions are welcome, and thank you for your help.
This was posted in the QN box, I think on accident, so I'm posting it here.
The_Blind_Guardian:
I'm confused by your question. if you're asking whether you can moniter a recording using the zoom's speaker rather than headphones, I'm pretty sure that's not possible. Your best bet is to use headphones, a feet which is rather difficult I understand with binaural microphones. I've only used a zoom H4N, and in that version
you are able to enable and disable record monitering through headphones via one of the settings. I'm sure there's a user manual you can download. There may even be one for people with visual impairments. I know the H4N has one of those.
Your best bet is allways to monitor your recording with headphones, I had binaural mikes a few months ago and was using them with my Olympus LS 100. I used ear buds one at a time with a binaural mike in the other ear and set my gain and levels that way. This makes it of course hard to adjust on the fly but some recorders like the Olympus have auto gain settings and built in compressors. If your sound level is fairly consistent I'd suggest you just record with auto gain or light compression but I don't know anything about zoom recorders.
Thanks for posting that here Anthony. I'm glad someone caught it.