Zoom R4 MultiTrak SD Recorder and USB Audio Interface

Very good sound quality and easy to use

I'm a videographer and I wanted a device between my microphones and my camera. I was extremely excited to buy this as it's pretty hyped for the float audio. I should have done my homework and saved my money. While the R4 looks cool, it has an extremely confusing workflow. The idea of having to hold down buttons to interact with certain functions or menus is dated and cheap. On my old zoom H4n you hit record once to see levels, you hit record one more time and bam, you're recording. that's it. Here you have to create a new project, and I'm not even sure what comes next, because stopping and starting puts everything one one track. The worst feature, or lack thereof is NO DESIGNATED AUDIO OUT. How does my 2019 H4n have the ability to use the headphone jack as an audio out and this doesn't? There's no switching to 44k, it's 48 all the way. So to summarize, this is a no frills 32-Bit float recorder with no audio out, confusing recording process and bare bones functions in a non-user friendly menu. I don't hate it, $200 isn't a terrible price point, I'm not mad I'm just disappointed in some of zoom's choices.

Just unpacked this unit and put it to work. The sound quality is incredible with alot of features for its compact size. It’s easy to use and is packed with plenty of effects for most projects. The effects also sound nice. The best feature is the Bounce track that allows unlimited bouncing and mixing. Another great feature is that all of your individual tracks remain intact even after Bouncing. Think of this as nondestructive editing. It’s a very useful and powerful feature.To use this unit as an audio interface for your computer, phone or iPad make sure you use a USB Data transfer cable and not just a charging cable.To make your track library easy to navigate start by setting up a New Project and give it a specific name. Then all of your related tracks will reference back to that Project.Zoom has packed this unit with very high end audio tech and the unit sounds very professional.

This studio multitrack recorder is the size of a pack of cigarettes that can fit in a shaver case to protect the unit with the latest technology chips for a song of a price the unit has a screw hole on the back that can fit a small camera tripod stand and runs on micro sdcards that you can play through a computer to a daw for extra mixing and mastering if you have music software to use!!!

I don't like this device : and this is my reasons:1 - hard to understand settings ( not logical )2- recording music need check levels all time3 - plastic body4 - display not informative ( no digital markers )5 - extremely hard to connect to computer , need pushing 2 button at the same time !