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Title: zoom h4 access light beep
Post by: saltybrian on December 18, 2006, 05:44:07 AM

hi there
just dropped in on your forum to chck out what you had to say about the h4. i m considering it for use as a songwriting sketchpad / multitracker / recording gigs but have been concerned by reports elsewhere of a tone generated by the access light when recording 16/44.1   any thoughts / experiences?
thanks.

Title: Re: zoom h4 access light beep
Post by: Carlos E. Martinez on December 18, 2006, 08:08:25 AM

Quote from: saltybrian on December 18, 2006, 05:44:07 AM

just dropped in on your forum to chck out what you had to say about the h4. i m considering it for use as a songwriting sketchpad / multitracker / recording gigs but have been concerned by reports elsewhere of a tone generated by the access light when recording 16/44.1   any thoughts / experiences?

If you are not going to be on the move with the H4, you can provide a battery external supply, whoch would solve the beep problem.

Title: Re: zoom h4 access light beep
Post by: BayTaynt3d on December 18, 2006, 12:24:06 PM

Could someone explain just what the "beep problem" is?

Title: Re: zoom h4 access light beep
Post by: Will_S on December 21, 2006, 09:42:17 PM

Quote from: BayTaynt3d on December 18, 2006, 12:24:06 PM

Could someone explain just what the "beep problem" is?

There's some discussion in these threads:

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=76850&page=3
http://www.2090.org/zoom/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=7589&view=next&sid=bf210a6abe95a2ef2cbc88d6db7174be
http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=374488&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#374488%20Sound%20On%20Sound%20-%20Zoom%20H4

I can't hear it in any of my recordings, but maybe someone with better playback equipment/ears can:

http://www.archive.org/details/waybacks2006-12-01.U873Rc.flac16f