It is disappointing that UA-cam no longer displays downvotes, unsuspecting people should know that this video totally misses the point and does not reflect reality.
@@christophermckenzie7167 yeh it isn’t the video editing that shows your ignorance. It is pretty unfounded to pretend that it is the editing where the ignorance is.
@@rurikau the idea is to get to digital as quickly as possible in the chain to minimize analog noise or signal loss and then keep it at the same digital fidelity until it hits disk with minimal latency. Just use the standard usb interface and a usb 3 bus and you're good.
@@rurikau the point is that incompetent people need to overpay for "hardware mixers" that are really just an SBC and a few DACs? The need was real and these things served a purpose in say, 2004, but these days it's just fancy knobs to service people who equate spending money with being professional.
Are you darf? The PodTrak P4 CAN serve as a audio interface directly into the computer using the USB-C cable. Also the pads are programmable! Gosh. Go read the instructions manual!
It didn't register as a standard usb audio interface in Linux. The instruction manual isn't going to help you. The device is supposed to offer sound quality, not some cheesy circus buttons on a crappy CPU
wow you are so out of touch with the purpose the of the P4. It is not for some really for someone who runs Linux everyday and builds raspberry pi's and has mixers just laying around. It is for you non-tech people who want to start podcasting. Who need something to work 99.9% of time with no troubleshooting, and not having to worry about drivers or software. With just a P4, Mics, SD card, and power and you are off to the races. Your setup works for you because you have years of experience dealing with it the hardware and software. the P4 was built to solve another problem.
those are two different questions. You can have a really high bit depth and sample rate in your software but if you're DACing from an analog input, that's what matters. Really you gotta hook it up and try it out yourself. Higher numbers in the specs doesn't map to something being more competently built.
The Podtrak P4 is really amazing! it has the ability to record 4 seperate tracks to edit later and those nobs can be used to add pre-recorded files/background music and more and you also have the advantage of having a podcast equipment handy
...you can use the h6 as a stereo mixer to get mic in to a computer while also powering the device. right after you spewed out that bit of misinformation i just bailed on the video.
Just checked. This looks like a solid no-nonsense product lineup at fair prices. I'm not doing audio any more but if I do I'll be sure to keep this in mind.
Lol. You sound like a user that does not need more than one or two microphones. For those of us who need multiple microphone / instrument inputs this is what we have to use. Also some of the best sounding microphones are analog XLR microphones only. Unless you have a very fancy computer with a very fancy XLR sound card which I've never seen before, you need one of these interfaces as an external sound card. The other thing to mention, although the P4 only records at 16 bit, which is horrible, that's on the same level as the Blue Yeti, it and the H6 can record 4 separate microphones on 4 separate tracks. And the H6 can even add compression and noise reduction features. So not only do you have four separate tracks which you can Master separately on your computer, you are much less limited than simply using a USB microphone. I use my Yeti x with 24 bit on a daily basis, but for the amount of money I spent on that I can get a zdm1 and a P4 so Bravo to zoom for creating those two interfaces
Glad you're happy. I've done double-blind controlled tests on the microphones on 5 people. The directly connected USB microphones outperformed the XLRs. A common complaint was the line-noise because I don't have a true earth ground in my apartment to debias the XLR. The USB doesn't need that. Also the higher end microphones needed to get a room noise sample to then cancel it out from the final recording where the cheaper ones didn't pick it up to begin with. I guess they're fine if you're singing or recording something like a trombone. But if it's just conversation, the cheaper direct to usb are superior and better fit for purpose.
It is disappointing that UA-cam no longer displays downvotes, unsuspecting people should know that this video totally misses the point and does not reflect reality.
It's unedited uncut video of actual operation. Perhaps it was a faulty unit but the idea that it was cherry picked or manipulated is pretty unfounded.
@@christophermckenzie7167 yeh it isn’t the video editing that shows your ignorance. It is pretty unfounded to pretend that it is the editing where the ignorance is.
@@rurikau the idea is to get to digital as quickly as possible in the chain to minimize analog noise or signal loss and then keep it at the same digital fidelity until it hits disk with minimal latency. Just use the standard usb interface and a usb 3 bus and you're good.
@@christophermckenzie7167you are still missing the point.
@@rurikau the point is that incompetent people need to overpay for "hardware mixers" that are really just an SBC and a few DACs?
The need was real and these things served a purpose in say, 2004, but these days it's just fancy knobs to service people who equate spending money with being professional.
McKenzie! you just saved me 200 bucks.
Are you darf? The PodTrak P4 CAN serve as a audio interface directly into the computer using the USB-C cable. Also the pads are programmable! Gosh. Go read the instructions manual!
It didn't register as a standard usb audio interface in Linux. The instruction manual isn't going to help you.
The device is supposed to offer sound quality, not some cheesy circus buttons on a crappy CPU
I ended up with a really nice setup I talked about in a subsequent video.
I'm glad the device works for you. I was really unsatisfied with it
nice
wow you are so out of touch with the purpose the of the P4. It is not for some really for someone who runs Linux everyday and builds raspberry pi's and has mixers just laying around. It is for you non-tech people who want to start podcasting. Who need something to work 99.9% of time with no troubleshooting, and not having to worry about drivers or software. With just a P4, Mics, SD card, and power and you are off to the races. Your setup works for you because you have years of experience dealing with it the hardware and software. the P4 was built to solve another problem.
what is the bit depth and sample rate of the Zoom h6 when it is used as an audio interface? can the quality compete with focusrite solo?
those are two different questions. You can have a really high bit depth and sample rate in your software but if you're DACing from an analog input, that's what matters.
Really you gotta hook it up and try it out yourself. Higher numbers in the specs doesn't map to something being more competently built.
The Podtrak P4 is really amazing! it has the ability to record 4 seperate tracks to edit later and those nobs can be used to add pre-recorded files/background music and more and you also have the advantage of having a podcast equipment handy
I can record 7 tracks with a $10 USB hub and insert background music with the $5 raspberry pi I hook up to it. The thing was total garbage
...you can use the h6 as a stereo mixer to get mic in to a computer while also powering the device. right after you spewed out that bit of misinformation i just bailed on the video.
Try any of the finefine product line and let us know ❤
Just checked. This looks like a solid no-nonsense product lineup at fair prices. I'm not doing audio any more but if I do I'll be sure to keep this in mind.
Lol when you focus to much on gear but don't create nothing
I've got about 60 video episodes uploaded here and have done 3 podcasts totaling about 250 more but cool story.
Bro.. use the following Class 10 SD cards:
4 GB - 32 GB SDHC
64 GB - 512 GB SDXC
If you are getting a lot of "hang", perhaps you've got a faulty SD card?
I tried 5. No.
also they were all performant on other devices. They were fine everywhere else except for this craptastic unit.
where is the test sound?
The test sound was fine but honestly nothing better or worse than direct USB connecting. I A/B tested it and nobody could tell.
Lol. You sound like a user that does not need more than one or two microphones. For those of us who need multiple microphone / instrument inputs this is what we have to use. Also some of the best sounding microphones are analog XLR microphones only. Unless you have a very fancy computer with a very fancy XLR sound card which I've never seen before, you need one of these interfaces as an external sound card. The other thing to mention, although the P4 only records at 16 bit, which is horrible, that's on the same level as the Blue Yeti, it and the H6 can record 4 separate microphones on 4 separate tracks. And the H6 can even add compression and noise reduction features. So not only do you have four separate tracks which you can Master separately on your computer, you are much less limited than simply using a USB microphone.
I use my Yeti x with 24 bit on a daily basis, but for the amount of money I spent on that I can get a zdm1 and a P4 so Bravo to zoom for creating those two interfaces
Glad you're happy. I've done double-blind controlled tests on the microphones on 5 people. The directly connected USB microphones outperformed the XLRs. A common complaint was the line-noise because I don't have a true earth ground in my apartment to debias the XLR. The USB doesn't need that. Also the higher end microphones needed to get a room noise sample to then cancel it out from the final recording where the cheaper ones didn't pick it up to begin with.
I guess they're fine if you're singing or recording something like a trombone. But if it's just conversation, the cheaper direct to usb are superior and better fit for purpose.
Lame