Songwriting Zen

My New Songwriting Tool – Zoom H4 Handy Recorder

As a songwriter, it’s always important that I have some sort of audio recorder on hand to put down any songwriting ideas that come my way.

As you would’ve gathered from my previous blog posts, I believe that songwriting ideas can come from anywhere and everywhere.

Until now I’ve been putting my guitar and vocal noodlings onto analog tape. From this, I have boxes and boxes of 90 minute tapes full of works in progress that I can look back on and complete when the muse pays a visit.

The problem with using tape is that, being an analog medium, it’s a very time consuming process putting stuff onto computer. As I’m now computerizing my songwriting process I need to have a digital way of capturing my songwriting ideas.

I initially tried a digital voice recorder however, I found that I didn’t like the sound quality of the end result. I wanted something that I could record my songwriting ideas and put them online straight away.

Hence my new toy.

Recently I purchased a Zoom H4 Handy Recorder and, even though I’ve just started to work it out, it’s an amazing songwriting tool.

I was turned onto the H4 by a songwritng friend of mine who had the model below mine, the H2.

I was really impressed by the fact that the H2 is a digital recorder which was easy to use and small enough to take anywhere.

The difference between the H2 and the H4 is that I can also use it as an audio interface and, as a 4 track digital recorder.

Wow, perfect for my songwriting studio.

My initial goal with the H4 is to re-record all of my analog songwriting ideas and start cataloging them onto my hard drive.

This will give me lots of opportunities to practise using the H4 plus the Cubase software that comes bundled with the package.

Once I have some recordings under my belt I’ll post them online for your listening pleasure.

Let me tell you, saying that I’m excited is an understatement. My songwritng process has been enhanced 1000% with this new purchase.

Now, let me see, how do I turn this thing on again…

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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