The new Zoom MicTrak M2, M3, and M4 are audio recorders capable of 32-bit float recording and therefore lacking a gain knob. They feature a headphone jack for monitoring and recording audio to microSD cards. The M2 and M4 feature X/Y capsules for two tracks of audio recording and the M4 adds two more tracks via XLR ports. The M3 looks like an on-camera microphone and comes with a built-in directional capsule. The Japanese audio gear manufacturer Zoom recently announced three new audio recorders with built-in microphones. The interesting feature is that all of them come with 32-bit float audio sampling technology for easier recording. Let’s take a look at the details. New Zoom recorders with 32-bit float Recording First, let’s focus on what is 32-bit float and why would you want it in your audio recorder. In short, this technology is designed to capture distortion-free sound regardless of its intensity. There is no need to adjust a gain knob when recording audio with 32-bit float because even very loud sounds will not clip. In fact, all three new MicTrak devices do not even have a gain knob anymore. As opposed to a traditional 24-bit audio recording, you can recover noise-free sounds that were recorded very silently, and at the same time, very loud sounds did not clip and did not get distorted. The people from Zoom nicely summarized the key information about 32-bit float audio recording (including the post-production process) in this interesting article, so check it out if...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 27 December, 2022