Turn your Zoom H2 digital recorder into an audio USB interface

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3 жыл бұрын

Need a way to run your analog mixer into your computer or laptop? This worked out pretty slick and with pretty darn good quality good. Be sure to pay attention to all of your levels - from your mixer and especially from the Zoom - to make sure you're not sending too much signal. Should work for any number of applications - Facebook Live, OBS, Zoom (The virtual meet up platform, not the digital music gear), etc. BTW - Be sure to check out FiddlerNick's comment below if you're using Windows 10.

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@HarryVerey 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tip. I record via an Analogue mixer into a Zoom H2n but I use the left and right Phono outputs from the mixer into the zoom rather than the headphone output .The phono output is lower (line level I think) and intended for recording and is less likely to distort the sound with too strong a signal and therefore I do not have to turn the recording level right down ..The head phone output is used to drive headphones which do not have a preamp in them. This does require a left and right phono cable into 3.5 jack plug though. . easily available from Amazon.

@EricOde 5 ай бұрын

HarryVerey, that sounds like a terrific solution. Well done.

@FiddlerNick 3 жыл бұрын

For Windows 10 there is one extra thing you need to do otherwise the H2 will appear as a device in settings but won't transfer any audio. In the AUDIO i/F menu, before using CONNECT, you need to go into FREQUENCY first and check it is set to 48kHz not 44.1 kHz. If you are using your H2 into a DAW like Cakewalk you may have to set it up as the selected input device (instead of your normal interface) and set the driver mode to WASAPI SHARED if it is previously set to ASIO. It will then appear in your inputs selection just like an interface and you can select Left Right or Stereo to go to your recorded track

@EricOde 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thanks a bunch, FiddlerNick. I edited the video description with a suggestion folks read your comment if they're using Windows 10.

@FiddlerNick 3 жыл бұрын

@@EricOde I came across the frequency select thing on a tech forum yesterday after days of trying to get my H2 to work into Cakewalk. So thought i worth sharing

@ninfaroxa 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I was wondering that I wouldn't find the solution for my problem!! Thank you so much!

@FiddlerNick 3 жыл бұрын

@@ninfaroxa It's good when social media works the good way round and we all accumulate our combined knowledge rather than our negative stuff!

@geliasha Жыл бұрын

Gracias Eric !!

@Sound-of-Bansuri 3 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you, useful!

@EricOde 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it was useful.

@chrisezelle 6 ай бұрын

👍🏼🎵♥️

@d1360q 3 жыл бұрын

muchas gracias!. buena información.

@EricOde 3 жыл бұрын

Con gusto!

@jamesbondaygee 2 жыл бұрын

You do require the driver for the H2 first in order to do this, yes?

@EricOde 8 ай бұрын

Jamesbondaygee, so sorry to miss this question - a full year ago! Yikes! I did not have to load any sort of driver. My laptop, running Windows, recognized the Zoom right away. FiddlerNick, above, had some steps that he needed to walk through but that I wasn't faced with.

@atulisrockin 6 ай бұрын

I had to download the H2 Windows driver. After that Reaper recognised the H2 as an ASIO audio interface and I can use it with low latency. Result!

@danielelagha6755 8 ай бұрын

is it possible to use the zoom h2 as an external micro for smartphone?

@EricOde 8 ай бұрын

Great question, Danielelagha6755! I would imagine you can, but I've never tried it. If you find that it works, let me know. I'd love to hear about it.

@danielelagha6755 7 ай бұрын

@@EricOdei found a way to connect the zoom to the iphone via usb, but i am wondering if the iphone is even able to capture the quality that is coming out of the zoom....what do you think?

@EricOde 7 ай бұрын

@@danielelagha6755- That's another good question. The Zoom quality always sounds really good to me for such a compact little machine, but would it get compromised on the iPhone end of things? No idea. I guess it's up to experimentation and listening, huh? Good luck!