I needed a multi microphone system to record multiple different people. And instead of shelling out like $600 which I do not have, I decided to do one of the laziest, most inefficient things possible.
I have two working audio recorders. The Olympus DM 620, and the zoom H2n. And what does that give me? Multiple microphones.
So what did I do to simulate a multi microphone system? That’s right, turn both of them on and hit record at the same time and hope that it worked. I then proceeded to do several tests.
Afterwards, when I put them both into my daw and combined them, it predictably sounded like a 1960s delay effect. But of course I didn’t give up there. I decided to go through the painstaking process of making them both aline as exactly as I could. And in a very nice display that the most ridiculous solutions to problems like this Actually work, when I was finished, it sounded pretty good. Not only do I have two mono microphones, but I have a set of stereo microphones seeing as I can record with two different microphone capsules at once on the zoom.