Manual Zoom HD16 (page 4 of 213) (English)

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ZOOM HD8/HD16

Contents

USAGE AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS . . . . . . . . 2

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Features of the HD8/HD16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Getting to Know the HD8/HD16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rhythm section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Names of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HD8 Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HD16 Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

HD8/HD16 Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

HD8/HD16 Right Side Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing the CD-R/RW Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power On/Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Turning power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Turning power off (shutdown) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Listening to a Demo Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Selecting the demo song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Playing the demo song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Let’s Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Step 1: Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1.1 Creating a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1.2 Selecting the rhythm pattern to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Step 2: Recording the first track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

2.1 Adjusting input sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

2.2 Applying the insert effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

2.3 Selecting a track and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Step 3: Overdubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.1 Making settings for input sensitivity and insert effect . . . 29

3.2 Selecting a track and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Step 4: Mixing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.1 Turning off the input and rhythm section . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.2 Adjusting volume, panning, and EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.3 Applying the send/return effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.4 Applying the insert effect to a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Step 5: Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

5.1 Using the mastering insert effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

5.2 Mixdown on the master track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Reference [Recorder] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

V-takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

About V-takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Switching V-takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing the V-take name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Moving to a desired point in the song

(locate function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Playing back the same passage repeatedly

(A-B repeat function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Finding a desired location

(scrub/preview function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using scrub/preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Changing the scrub direction and duration . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Re-recording only a specified region

(punch-in/out function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using manual punch-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using auto punch-in/out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Recording several tracks on a master track

(mixdown function). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

About the master track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Master track mixdown steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Playing the master track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Converting the master track to a stereo WAV file . . . . . . 43

Combining multiple tracks on one or two tracks

(bounce function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Making bounce settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Executing bounce recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Recording the drum/bass track sound on an audio

track (rhythm recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Selecting drum/bass track as recording source. . . . . . . . 45

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Recording on 8 tracks simultaneously

(8-track recording mode) <<HD16 only>> . . . . . . 46

About 8-track recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Assigning an input signal to a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Marker function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Setting a mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Locating a mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Deleting a mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Making settings for pre-count operation . . . . . . . . 49

Reference [Track Editing] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Editing a range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Basic steps for range editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Copying a specified range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Moving a specified range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Erasing a specified range of data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Trimming a specified range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Fade-in/fade-out of specified data range. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Reversing a specified range of audio data. . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Changing the duration of an entire track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Compensating the pitch of a specified range . . . . . . . . . 55

Generating harmony from a specified range of audio

data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Generating a 1-part harmony from a specified range

of audio data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Editing using V-takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Basic steps for V-take editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Erasing a V-take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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