This is my new setup for TOTM but it's not working out.
I had better luck with the XP but had latency issues.
NOW I get very poor recording off the zoom when it goes into Audacity ? ( it's not the zoom, on it's own it's great. ) It's like if you look at the signal it never goes higher or lower it just stays even on the waveform/ Make sense?
This seems to be some easy to use thing for a lot o the guys posting on TOTM but I can't for life of me get this all to gel???
I have been Googling aroung BUT If you know anything that would help please post , Thanks.
Mike, check the volume settings both in Audacity and your windows mixer, and make sure you have the correct input selected, if there is a choice (there is on my soundcard and when I moved to Win7 the controls looked completely different than in XP)
Also, download the latest windows drivers off of the zoom site. I was having trouble when I changed to a new PC (from vista to win7) but the downloaded drivers fixed the problem right away.
Sometimes I remove the memory card from the Zoom and use a card reader to read it. There's the slight hassle of doing that but then reading is much faster.
working out pretty well but the input signal from the Zoom is peaking way high even with the Zoom on its lowest setting. So I have to mix the sax way down after and it seems it's a bit distorted because of this but just a little .
Again, this is exactly the problem I was having. You need to download the latest software version from http://www.zoom.co.jp/downloads/. It will fix the problem you are having. Otherwise the recording quality will continue to sound like dung when you use the zoom as an audio interface.
I believe the latest Audacity Version for Windows is 2.0.3. (just checked my version, and that's what it is) You should probably update. There are a bunch of settings in Edit/Preferences, including latency correction in the Edit/Preferences/Recording.
The Zoom H2n can either record digitally to the memory card or act as a USB mic, effectively being its own digital interface. It doesn't use the computer soundcard at all. And the latency setting I use is fine.
Yesterday I managed to get the volume and sound quality working fine, using a gain level of 3 on the Zoom and 0.06 as the Audacity input level. To set that very low input level I had to go into the Windows control panel and set the microphone device properties level at 6/100.
I have pretty good results with the Zoom H4n/Audacity/Windows 7 but I found the ideal setting on the Zoom in I/O mode is .6 and going up to 1 was too high.
Something you should do is go to the Audacity help manual and perform a Latency test. I was wondering why I was coming in late all the time until I did this.
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