are you fucking kidding me? The producer for the NTU shoot told me that they will be shooting their film with an external audio recording device. That's pretty alien to me because all along I've been using devices that still require connection to the camera, hence using the camera's timecode. So i enquired what device they are using.

A Zoom H4N

Okay when I saw Zoom, i suddenly had a weird feeling because Zoom deals with music recording devices. So I decided to do a google search on the device and voilah!

http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h4n/

it IS a music recording device. How the heck is it possible to record a film, using a SD card enabled music recording device?? Its just wrong. And although it does have the functions that enable it to record sound for film, it has 2 inbuilt mics, and 2 more XLR ports for external mics. Sounds fine right?

Now what it doesnt state is whether you are able to disable the internal mics while recording the external ones. If there is an onboard mixer its okay, otherwise I face the bleak possibility of recording way too much ambient noise for the productions' good.

I need to bring this up to them tomorrow. I'd rather they cut a bit of my pay and go rent proper audio equipment than to risk it like this. Furthermore I've never used this device before.

I need to readjust my body clock....at least try...