This is the Portacapture X8’s Field recording app.
Whether you’re capturing human-made sounds such as vehicles or cityscapes
or natural sounds like birds and nature in general,
the X8 has the solution to your needs.
Here we see the user interface.
At the top of the screen we can see the length of the recording
and beneath that the stereo master meters
where we’ll be monitoring the signal coming into the Portacapture.
To the right we see a Gain setting and a Low-Cut option.
The gain can be set at either High or Low.
With Low Cut enabled, the Portacapture X8 will filter out
low frequencies to avoid any noisy or muddy sounding rumble from being captured in our recordings.
In the middle of our screen we see a microphone icon.
Touching that brings up manual input gain adjustment.
At the bottom left of our screen we find Input Settings.
From here we can see some additional options for each input
such as Auto Gain, Noise Gate, Low-Cut filter, which is
where we can adjust which frequency our recording will filter out at 40 80 120 or 220 Hz,
Limiter and Compressor, EQ and Phase Invert.
To the right we see our stereo master fader along with manual
gain adjustment in the high and low gain button.
Going back to the main field recording user interface
we see NO PRESET in the middle of the screen.
By touching that we bring up a list of presets:
CITY, NATURE, VEHICLE and BIRD.
These are all common types of field recording
and the presets that come along with each option reflect the best way to capture that specific audio.
For field recording we’ll want a wide but natural sounding stereo feel.
For this we’ll set our built-in mics in the A-B position.
Let’s take a look at how easy field recording is with the Portacapture X8
in the presets in the Field recording app.
push the RECORD button once to start recording.
Press the STOP button to end recording.
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