one technical question about Zoom H4N
by Bertrand LANCIEN
on
Nov 1, 2009 at 1:45:25 pm
Hello
I need information about Zoom H4N
I’m a classical musician, and I want to buy this device to record various concerts.
But I have also a good Sony camcorder (with –of course- a bad integrated microphone).
My question is :
Is it possible to use sometime the H4N as a simple external microphone, plugging it into the Jack 3.5 input of my camcorder?
(Instead of multiplexing with a software or buying separated microphone)
Re: one technical question about Zoom H4N by Sam Mallery on Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02:01 pm
The camera likely has a mic-level input, and the output of the H4N is line-level, so I think this would not work so well.
One thing you could do is sell your H4N and buy the new Zoom Q3. It's got the same microphones and recording capability as the H4N, plus it has an integrated video camera.
Re: one technical question about Zoom H4N by Sam Mallery on Nov 2, 2009 at 8:33:52 pm
No external inputs on the Q3. Not an option for running double system in the audio bag. But, for people just looking for a point & shoot Flip-like video camera, the audio quality of the Q3 beats the pants off of everything. It "likely" has the best sounding built-in microphones of any video camera ever made. ;)