Recording Birdsongs Outdoors; System-Setup - Edirol R-4 Bedienungsanleitung

Application guide

Recording birdsongs outdoors

Here are basic settings for recording birdsongs or similar sounds outdoors. Since you'll need to run on
batteries outdoors, the settings take power conservation into account.
■ Panel settings
Input level select switch
Phantom power switch
■ Recording Setup
Input Select
Rec Freq.
Rec Bit
Rec Mode
Pre Recording
Project Name
■ LCD Setup
BackLight Timer
■ System Setup
Battery Type
76
MIC
ON if you're using a condenser mic that requires phantom power; otherwise
OFF
Analog By lowering the sampling frequency (Rec Freq.) and
limiting the number of tracks, you can minimize the
44.1 kHz
size of the file to be written. This will decrease the
amount of access to the hard disk, thereby conserving
16 bit
power.
STEREOx1,
Set to match the mics that are connected.
MONOx1
The pre-recording setting lets you press the record
button when you hear birdsong; sounds that oc-
curred several seconds earlier will be captured retro-
actively. If you're trying to capture birdsong, a
setting of four seconds will be sufficient. In compari-
4 sec
son to allowing recording to continue, this method
will minimize the number of accesses to the internal
hard disk.
However, with any pre-recording setting other than
OFF, recording will always be occurring internally.
Using the Date setting will make it easy to tell the
Date
date and time that the recording was made.
5 sec
Set to the type of batteries you've installed