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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: ZOOM R24 - Tech Question


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ppayette - Posted - 04/04/2011:  05:01:20

Hi everyone,
I purchased the new ZOOM R24 and recorded our band this weekend. Excellent sound and was able to get each instrument and each voice on separate track which was nice for mixing.
I have a couple of questions. First, there is one input for a Hi Impedence Instrument like an electric bass or electric guitar with a switch for Hi Z or not. My question is, if you are using an acoustic guitar with a pick up that you plug into the board, is that a high impedence issue or not?

Secondly, the ZOOM manual doesn't explain this and they probably think that any goofball who would buy one of these would already know the answer, but...

On the input gain knob for each track, you turn it right for Mic input and turning to the left if fo "Line". Not sure what line is and it did not seem to make a difference on the input turning towards line. Anyone help me on this?
Thanks in advance.

rudy - Posted - 04/04/2011:  09:44:28

I've been researching the R24 as a prospective purchase for a while now, so I'm pretty familiar with it's features. I'm more familiar with features of other workstations in general, but the concepts are all basically the same.

quote:
...if you are using an acoustic guitar with a pick up that you plug into the board, is that a high impedence issue or not?


If you're using a pickup that has a built-in pre-amp (if it uses a battery) then you can disregard the high impedence switch and treat the channel 1 input like any other input. The high impedence selecter is best be used as a way of matching guitars with magnetic pickups to the input of the recorder.

quote:
On the input gain knob for each track, you turn it right for Mic input and turning to the left if fo "Line". Not sure what line is and it did not seem to make a difference on the input turning towards line.


The line level (fully counter-clockwise rotation) of the gain knob is for a signal that is already being boosted to a higher level by a preamp or other device between the instrument and the recorder input.

I SHOULD have made a huge differance in the input level as shown by your "clip" LED in the associated channel if you were using a mic plugged into that input. All of the workstation recorders are set up to show the maximum correct level at the channel when the clip LED just starts to flash. If the input is a normal mic level then the gain knob is adjusted by rotating CW until the clip LED just starts to flash.

I DO know from the research I've done on the R24 that the clipping LED is very conservative, so the input can be set to show mild clipping without the resulting wav file reaching the 0 DB limit.

Hope that might clarify some of the mystery.

ppayette - Posted - 04/04/2011:  09:57:22

Thanks...very helpful

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