 Okay, so part three practice recording the zoom Everyone should have a zoom in front of them. You can try recording Taking a look at I don't know if we have time If you want to you can try just go ahead grab one Funny you should be on your desk. I'm just kind of Go over it with you. So we're just time All right, so this is it's a field recorder It's handy for if you're in the field if you don't have the time and space to set up a desktop Okay, let me just see here. Yeah And so you'll notice that these two Built-in microphones on the top That lets you record stereo or let me try something here Okay So to turn it on on the right hand side on the bottom there's a power switch So just slide and hold it for one second and Then this display will turn on it might take like two minutes to be honest To Mike's so stereo. It's stereo recording. So say recording is two separate channels. Yeah I Don't know how to get rid of this grid, but you kind of see it here Let's see here Okay So good thing to know is on the right hand side. There's a menu button I don't know if you can see it and above that is the scroll wheel Okay, so you press the menu button and then options come up See and you just use the scroll wheel to highlight options and to select an option you press the scroll wheel inward Okay, and then if you press the menu button you just return to the previous screen So this allows you to pick different recording modes adjust the date and so forth Let's just see here Yeah And then other important features are on the back side Yeah, sorry for the grid being in the way, but you'll see a quarter inch screw so you can mount this on a tripod if you don't want to hold it and then On the left hand side, you'll see the port for 3.5 millimeter headphones Okay, so what I would like everybody to do is put you press the menu button and Then make sure you're at the first menu screen Can everybody see then scroll use a scroll wheel to select mode okay, and Then you press the scroll wheel inward to select the mode menu and Then you'll see there's three modes So stereo is is your two channel mode so that would you can use either these two milk microphones on the top or You can use external microphones that you plug into in the bottom Okay, and For channel mode uses both The the the two two channels on top with these built-in microphones and Two external devices and then mixed track recording. That's more advanced MTR That's if you wanted to that's more for like musicians if you want to like Play four tracks separate tracks and record two separate tracks at the same time These are ports that you plug microphones into like this what I'm doing right now. I'm actually recording Yeah, yeah Okay, so let's go. Let's pick stereo mode Okay, all right Okay, another thing to know is on the right hand side. There's two volume buttons plus minus That changes the volume of the recording the track itself and you can go from like One up to like level 100 so Mike level. I know if you can see it here How do I get this grid off? Oh wait, okay Maybe I have to lean in Okay, there we go Then on the left hand side, you'll see another set of volume buttons. That's for for playback when you're listening These two volumes are totally they're independent Okay As you can see here, so this this record button is probably the most important So it has three functions the first and foremost function is it puts the recorder into standby mode Okay You'll notice that now the ring is is blinking and The in the top left corner of the display. There's a blinking pause button and then you can see the moving levels left and right channels Then along the bottom is this the scale In decibels And so you want to ideally You don't you don't want you do not want it to go past the minus 12 because minus 12 is like the magic number I don't there must be a scientific reason, but I'm not sure what it is It's just for any recording just out of peak at around minus 12 decibels. Okay, I can The second function of the record button is to start recording from standby mode Besides using the record button you could also press the play button to start recording But the device has to already be in standby mode. Okay, and then the third the tertiary function the record button is to Create bookmarks while the device is recording so that's really handy if you're doing like an interview, right? So before you ask like especially like a any type of interview before you ask a question You press the record button to set a bookmark So later when you're playing back, you can just skip among the bookmarks to like interesting sections and What else is there? Okay, so you notice on the two microphones on the top you can twist the knobs two different settings There's 90 degrees You see you twist them and I don't know if you can see it part of the grid You twist them so you twist both of the mics to 90 degrees. So that's like a 90 degree recording fields That's perfect if you want to record just in front of you Right, so like so here's my arms making a fist Right, so I would want to point the mic between the fist. That's the perfect. Maybe like one or two feet away Yeah, yeah, and then if you want to Let's say you're interviewing someone and you want to record yourself and the person you would twist the knobs to 120 And you would hold it up vertically so on either side Okay, but again, this is really good if it was a super long you never you probably don't want to hold it for that long So that's that's the way you want to like play it ahead, right? Yeah, both both mics. Yeah, set them both to 120. Oh Yeah, and though on the also on the left-hand side There's a I think I mentioned that you could plug in headphones while you're listening. So that's good If you're out in the field Okay, so if you want Just speak and if you need to increase the the menu the Oops the recording level buttons on the right side just to get it at minus 12 Decimals ABC I would just recommend a beast to say the alphabet ABC to EFG H I J K I don't know P. Maybe you could pair up and just start recording You want to try that just say what's your favorite book? So maybe first like hold it the way you hold it make sure it's in recording mode and Then just when you're ready press press either record or play to start recording and then when you want to stop recording Just press the stop button So we kind of skipped over this This is just what we covered Yeah, so again just to reiterate if we're using stereo mode to channel mode and you want to switch You want to switch the input like use the built-in mics or external mics? You have to press the input button on the right on the left hand side of the front so Mike if this button is lit up if you can see this is going to use the two built-in mics If you use you press either the one or two that's tying device to use whatever to record using whatever's plugged into the bottom yeah, okay and Let's see here Now you want to know how to transfer files. That's important Let's see here Where's the cable? I'll just show you briefly. So basically you want to That's pretty simple. So I saw me the right hand side. There's a USB port Each kit comes with a USB cable. So you connect the cable to your computer and then using the menu and scroll wheel you want to Go to scroll to USB mode oops, yeah USB mode and then What was I Actually and then your device should eventually recognize the the device it'll say H4N SD You can use cable or if your computer has an SD card slot You can remove the SD card which is on the right hand side Just a little flap here and then regardless it will show up as H4N underscore SD And then you'll see three folders at the root level each folder one for each recording mode So F for channel for CH MTR, which is mixed track recording in stereo. So if you want you could try it now You could connect the USB Connect connected H4N by USB cable to your computer So again, as you can see here at the root level, there's three folders one for each recording mode then each Primary folder will have ten sub folders folder one through ten You just copy and paste Weathers locate the community. Just here's some resources in the H4N So we have a guide on the website that we created. You also go to the zoom support page