Zoom H4n Handy Recorder Review 1

Holy crap,

This may never be read (as my blog has no traffic whatsoever) but after spending weeks trying to purchase a portable recorder and obsessing over every review on the web, I have finally made a purchase that I can recommend to other poor saps like me. The Zoom H4n handy recorder may be the best multi-functional audio recording tool for a freelance video-sound-designer/part-time musician ever!

While I agree with most reviews that the H4n isn't pro quality material (mediocre preamp, high usb ai latency, and clumsy big for a handheld), since I've gotten it I have: Collected a handful of useful sound effects, recorded band practice successfully without clipping, composed a tune using the built in multitrack function with a guitar and the built in mics and then, using the device as an USB audio interface, recording the songs to Logic Pro and using the finished product for a film festival trailer that played in front of hundreds of people. Now that's productive.

Disorient 2010!!!!

Stressful but fun in hindsight.

This is the trailer. Me edit. Me music.

Disorient 2010 Festival Trailer Lo from putdownripoff on Vimeo.

www.disorientfilm.org

Shanghai Betrayal Promos

Shanghai Betrayal Promos

Starring and written by Robert Slaughter

Directed and edited by Joe Jiang

No budget short narrative.

God Hates a Cowardly Hitman from JOE! on Vimeo.

Won't You Be My Murderer from JOE! on Vimeo.

The Complicated Hit from JOE! on Vimeo.

pep talk

a putdownripoff short

did this mostly as a test to see what we can do with out any real light or gear. 

shot on a sony pd-150 with the mini shotgun mic that it came with. 

I didn't bother using a boom and payed for it in audio quality. 

then i spend 3 days in final cut and logic pro trying to even the audio out...

thank goodness for the tube amp effect in logic.

Pep Talk from JOE! on Vimeo.

or see it at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLsNEaKz35g

put down rip off

i thought i did something creative.

it wasn't.

well it was, but i didn't do it.

i wish i did.

you did it.

you are good at what you do.

so i stole from you.

now i'm just as good.

if not better.