Syncing Audio and Video

[lpa53]

Originally Posted by Fran Guidry

One knock I had was the lack of a mic preamp, but I worked around the issue by using an external pre into the line in port. There's a sample of that setup in my first blog post on the Q3HD: http://www.homebrewedmusic.com/2010/...the-zoom-q3hd/

I also did some videos using a Zoom H2 as a powered mic, with the headphone out of the H2 into the line in of the Q3HD.

According to the manual you can use your Fastrack Pro as a standalone mic pre so you could try that approach for the cost of a couple of adapters. It looks like you'll need a couple of RCA plugs on one end and a 1/8" stereo plug on the other.

Fran

I've never tried any of the external inputs of my old Zoom recorder, but since I want to record both voice and guitar simultaneously, I'm not sure it would do the trick just with adapters - or perhaps I don't understand all of its capabilities.

It appears that some newer ZOOM recorders have two external inputs but I wonder if the create stereo tracks that could be extracted and post-processed.

Right now it seems to me that it would make more sense to replace my Fast Track with something one the order of a Presonus AudioBox or a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.