{"id":78,"date":"2017-03-06T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unexplodedminds.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-10-18T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:53:34","slug":"zoom-h4n-pro-portable-audio-recorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Zoom H4N Pro Portable Audio Recorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zoom H4N Pro Portable Audio Recorder\" width=\"586\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GNoGlZ1koaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I picked up this recorder a few months ago for recording cockpit audio and various amateur recording tasks where I might want better audio in the field than what simply recording with my phone is capable of.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit large and the audio quality is massive overkill if you just want it for cockpit audio but I wanted something more versatile.\u00a0 As Zoom proclaims, the mic preamps are excellent, having made some excellent test recordings from some higher end condenser mics in the studio.\u00a0 The built-in microphones are excellent; not as good as a high quality condenser microphone on the XLR inputs, but for voice and some limited percussion recordings I tried, they&#8217;re very good.\u00a0 The wind screens on the built-in microphones aren&#8217;t going to block out any wind but for recording normal speech from a distance they&#8217;re functional.\u00a0 The auto-level is very handy for recording in the cockpit with such widely varying levels, especially in rental planes where I don&#8217;t have the opportunity to really sit and play to get things just right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this recorder a few months ago for recording cockpit audio and various amateur recording tasks where I might want better audio in the field than what simply recording with my phone is capable of.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit large and the audio quality is massive overkill if you just want it for cockpit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BBwh-1g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}