Manual Zoom F4 (page 4 of 160) (English)

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Contents

Usage and Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02

Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05

Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06

Connecting mics/other devices to Inputs 1–6 . . . . . . . . 08

LCD display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Preparations

Supplying power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Loading SD cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Turning the power on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Setting the date and time (Date/Time (RTC)) . . . . . . . . . 18

Setting the power supply used (Power Source) . . . . . . 20

Recording

Recording process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Setting the SD card used for recording and

recording ﬁle format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Selecting inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Adjusting the input levels and monitoring balance . . . 27

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting the sampling rate (Sample Rate) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting WAV ﬁle bit depth (WAV Bit Depth) . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting MP3 ﬁle bit depth (MP3 Bit Rate) . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Recording two tracks at different levels

(Dual Channel Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Capturing audio before recording starts (Pre Rec) . . . . 35

Setting the maximum ﬁle size (File Max Size) . . . . . . . . 36

Folder and ﬁle structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Moving the previously recorded take to the

FALSE TAKE folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Recorded take settings

Changing the note for the next take recorded (Note) . . 40

Setting how recorded scenes are named and

numbered (Scene) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Setting the take reset condition and numbering

format (Take) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing the track name of the next take recorded

(Track Name) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Playback

Playing recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Mixing takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Changing the playback mode (Play Mode) . . . . . . . . . . 51

Take and folder operations

Take and folder operations (Finder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Overview of take metadata stored in ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Checking and editing take metadata (Metadata Edit) . . 60

Writing a sound report (Create Sound Report) . . . . . . . 67

Input settings

Input and output signal ﬂow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Adjusting the L/R track volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Monitoring the input signals of speciﬁed tracks

(PFL/SOLO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Setting the monitoring volume on the PFL screen

(PFL Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Cutting low-frequency noise (HPF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Input limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Inverting the input phase (Phase Invert). . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Changing the phantom power settings (Phantom) . . . . 80

Changing the plugin power setting (Plugin Power) . . . 83

Applying delay to input signals (Input Delay) . . . . . . . . 84

Converting mid-side input to stereo

(Stereo Link Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adjusting multiple track input levels together

(Trim Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using Input 5/6 as a return (RTN) input . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Adjusting the side mic level of a mid-side mic capsule

(Side Mic Level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Output settings

Setting signals sent to the output jacks (Routing) . . . . . 90

Disabling outputs (Output On/Off) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Setting the standard output level (Output Level) . . . . . 95

Setting the output level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Applying delay to the output (Output Delay) . . . . . . . . . 97

Output Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Outputting alerts through headphones

(Alert Tone Level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

TIMECODE

Timecode overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Making timecode settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Setting the frame rate for internal timecode (FPS) . . . 109

Jamming internal timecode (Jam) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Restarting internal timecode with a speciﬁed value

(Restart) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Setting the automatic timecode recording delay

(Auto Rec Delay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Setting the user bits for internal timecode (Ubits) . . . 11 3

Setting how timecode is initialized at startup

(Start Timecode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Slate tones

Using slate tones (Slate Tone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Using USB functions

Exchanging data with a computer (SD Card Reader) . .119

Using as an audio interface (Audio Interface) . . . . . . . 120

Audio interface block diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Audio interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using an

as a controller (Connect) . . . . 125

Setting the

connected keyboard type

(Keyboard type) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Setting user keys for the

(User Key) . . . 127

Setting the power supply used by the

(Power Source) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Powering the

with USB bus power

(USB Bus Power) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Setting the

LED brightness

(LED Brightness) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Updating the

ﬁrmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Various settings

Setting the level meter display (Level Meter) . . . . . . . 133

Making display settings (LCD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Setting the LED brightness (LED Brightness) . . . . . . . . 138

Setting how marks are added manually

(PLAY Key Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Other functions

Checking SD card information (Information) . . . . . . . . 141

Testing SD card performance (Performance Test) . . . . 142

Formatting SD cards (Format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Checking the F shortcut list (Shortcut List) . . . . . 145

Restoring default setting values (Factory Reset) . . . . . 146

Checking the ﬁrmware version (Firmware Version) . . 147

Updating the ﬁrmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Appendix

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Detailed product diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Metadata list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

List of shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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