Download Audio Recorder
Severino Lacombe
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A good start would be adding in any case 'start if sound', so that a new file should be created when sound starts; but in order to have a new file, first the recorder must be made to stop when there is no sound. 'stop if silence' is not a good option, as it creates a lot of small useless files; a better option is 'stop if silence 1 sec.'. 'stop if silence 0.5 sec' may also be a good option. (This should be enough for the stated purpose. Using audio threshold timer commands seems to me more complicated.)
I need an audio recorder to allow users to record audio and upload it to the DB and then access all the recorded audio files in a repeating group. Is this possible with the Zerocode plugin? How do we display all the audio recordings in a RG?
As for the gears, I own a prosumer Nikon DSLR and a 20 cm shotgun microphone with an XLR output. I don't think syncing would be a problem for me. I am thinking of the Zoom H4n as recommended by my friends. Is the audio quality of the audio that different?
There are a variety of reasons to have an external recorder depending on the size of your production. A big advantage is the number of audio inputs and the ability to record each of those inputs as separate tracks, allowing you to do the mixing in post. I'm not sure about the H4n, but I know the H5 and H6 support multiple inputs as well as interchangeable capsules.
Another advantage is quality and control over quality. Most audio devices have a switch for uncompressed .WAV or compressed .MP3. You always want uncompressed audio unless you are tight on space. External audio devices also give you better control over gain and have better support for audio monitoring.
The final advantage I'll list here is portability. When your mic is tied to your camera, you'll need to string cables from the mic to the camera. This isn't an issue when the mic is sitting on the camera, but if you want a distance shot this becomes a problem. External audio gives you much more freedom of movement to place your mic in the best position to pick up sound.
However, its not even just the quality of the mic or recording device its the location. Having an external recorder means you can separate the audio easily from the camera. Back in the day when I was a teen, and had more enthusiasm than money, we used mics from old telephones to capture the actors speak. It improved our recording quality immensely, granted we also had a sound boom and sound operators, even so having the mic there on person saved our sounds more than once. Point is even a lousy mic in a great location is better than a great mic in a lousy location.
Can't speak for the Nikon, but the Canon 5D and 7D both have terrible on-board audio, with no way to easily monitor the audio levels. The Zoom will have a better mic pre-amp, and will let you monitor the levels easily and accurately. You can also monitor the audio on headphones whilst filming, so you'll stand a better chance of spotting problems, like wind noise, obtrusive background sounds, etc.
Getting the audio recording separated from the video recording is one of the best things you can do to improve your sound. What makes good camera placement doesn't always make for good audio placement. Also, your audio recorder can keep running while your camera isn't, so you don't miss anything.
I wouldn't recommend the h4n anymore. It is still a huge step up from the on-board audio, but it generally isn't the best value anymore. The H5n or H6n are both better options available now and generally better value unless you are getting a used H4n that someone is selling so they can buy the 5n or 6n.
That said, yes, you want an external audio recorder. The "internal audio recorder" on your camera is nothing more than a consumer level audio jack with a minimal quality capture capability. It lacks key features like phantom power and balanced audio as well as lacking a high quality audio interface. Monitoring is limited, the audio is heavily compressed and the connection is not secure and has to be plugged in to your camera.
An external recorder, such as something in the Zoom H#n series or higher end devices with similar function provides much cleaner audio as well as the ability to work with a much wider variety of high quality microphones. Additionally, you can still use the output from the external recorder and feed it in to your mic input on the DSLR if you want to have audio on your rough footage (though I still recommend using the actual audio files from the recorder for your final audio.) You don't need to have it connected to your camera if your camera needs to be moving. It can be operated by a separate sound engineer without bothering the camera operator. It is just all around a smoother and much higher quality experience.
Apart from the other benefits mentioned - mic placement, quality of the pre-amps, ability to properly monitor levels, another advantage is that many of the good quality digital recorders (like the Zooms) will let you record 24 bit samples at up to 96kHz. To use a not completely accurate analogy, that's like recording raw video at 4K instead of 8-bit at 1080p.
Well, finally I got the information, from the company called Wondershare. In the latest update of Allmusic application they are including the Speaker Audio Recorder, because MacPro woyld not record streaming audio using internal speakers. Why I got this installed on my iMac, they don't know.
I plan to use external mics (lav and shotgun) for on the go video shooting (bts video to accompany the stills and timelapse shooting that I do), and I'd like a more compact unit than the smallest (well-rated) audio recorder I've found, the Zoom H1n.
The main reason I don't want built-in mics is to save space in my equipment bag (I have good mics to plug in). I just am looking for a recorder that only contains what's necessary to record good quality audio coming from external mics (I don't anticipate ever needing built-in mics).
One of my camera's pre-amps has a louder-than-I'm-happy-with noise floor (Sony A7III). My field video camera, an Osmo Pocket, requires a too-expensive (for what it does) audio adaptor, so no external mic input (the adaptor is fully 1/3 the price of a Zoom H1n, I'd rather spend that money in a better way).
I'd prefer to record to an external device with a lav or shotgun mic, and mix audio in post. This way I'd have consistent audio from movie to movie, no matter what camera(s) I was using to record video (plus I could use shorter cords, no need to run a lav all the way to a camera). At the moment I have a nicely compact run-and-gun bag which is now pretty full. A small recording unit would fit nicely, but even a Zoom H1n would be too large to fit comfortably (it _would_ fit, but I'd risk squishing and perhaps damaging it).
Many years ago I worked with a production company that recorded to what was then cutting edge: Sony MiniDiscs. The recording unit was really small, but the audio was high enough quality for us (yes, I know the arguments against minidisc, but DAT for us wasn't an option). I'm hoping to find a unit of similar small size that records audio coming from a 3.5mm source that uses high quality audio codecs ("corporate" dictaphones all compress audio noticeably).
The Zoom F1 that Adrian Tung suggested (thread below this one) is the closest I've heard of to what I'm looking for (good recorder with no mics), but it's somewhat out of my budget (laughably, I was thinking that I could find something like the Zoom H1n, but without mics, that would cost less than the Zoom H1n because they took the mics off. Oh well).
To make it short: is there any other way to record loud live music with the FP3? I have no big expectations when it comes to phones but recording loud audio is one essential thing and all my unfair old phones were able to do it.
This is confusing because I would assume trying to prepare a recorder would not need an already-prepared recorder, and even more troubling, there are no google results for it other than the code listings: expo "recorder not prepared" - Google Search
Do you have Loopy Pro? If so, I can tell you what settings you need. In my opinion, Loopy Pro is much quicker to use as a simple audio recorder. it'll take a minute to setup a template that will be available any time you create a new project.
OK. Cool. So I'm best always recording these things to audio and arranging them that way and just treating the AUv3/IAA inputs as creation points for the audio ideas rather than solid tracks in their own right. Thanks for the clarity.
To be honest I don't know if "32 Bit" is integer format or floating point format in Loopy Pro.
I would expect floating point, and in this case audio should not clip and yes, this is the preferred recording format for audio, as it can also recover best from low volume recordings compared to 24 or 16 bit integer format.
Note that 32-bit floating point is what most audio apps use for their internal audio processing. Even with 32-bit floating point, individual synths or effects can end up clipping (maybe because internally they aren't using 32-bit floating point, I am not sure).
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