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Zoom H4n USB Audio Interface Setup In Windows 7 64-bit

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June 30th, 2011 |

Categories : How To

Zoom H4n USB Audio Interface

In this video, I demonstrate how to use the Zoom H4n handheld recorder as an USB audio interface on a Windows 7 64-bit system. I will show you how I use it with Camtasia, Audacity, Sound Forge and Sony Vegas.

Make sure that you have the latest firmware and driver.

I received many questions about using the Zoom H4n as an audio interface on 64-bit machine. It did not worked on the past but since the release of the latest driver it works fine.

As you will see in the video, it is not simply a matter of pluging in the recorder. You need to make sure that there are a couple of settings are set properly. On my system (an HP laptop) I did not have to latency, I only set the right bit rate (I use 48KHz). Your system might be different and you might have to play with the settings.

You will see the setup I’m using. This video was recorded with my video camera because I can’t record my screen and use the H4n as my microphone at the same time as I’m showing you how to connect it! Also, If I’m recording with Camtasia and the H4n and I record at the same time with Audacity, when I try to playback what I just recorded in Audacity, it just crashes Audacity

The easiest software to use configure with the Zoom H4n is the Camtasia by TechSmith. Is simply a matter of selecting the Zoom H4n as the input device. For Audacity, you can setup the Zoom H4n recorder only for recording and leave the default Windows playback device. For Sound Forge, you have no choice. If you select the Zoom H4n as the audio device, it will be for input and output. With Sony Vegas (I’m actually using Vegas Movie Studio HD), it’s the same as with Sound Forge. I also use Cubase and it also works (I have forgotten to show the settings for Cubase in the video but it is similar to the other programs).

If you have not seen it, I wrote a complete review of the Zoom H4n

Hope this video help you out!

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Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager

Posted by Philippe on

November 18th, 2010 |

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Categories : Computers & Softwares How To Internet Safety

Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

How To Disable The Annoying "Security Warning" popup in Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Philippe on

October 24th, 2010 |

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Categories : Computers & Softwares How To Internet Safety

Internet Explorer 8 logo

“Security Warning” dialog in IE8

How To Remove It!

If you are getting tired that every time you load a page you get the more than annoying Security Warning dialog box while using Internet Explorer 8, well you’re in luck ’cause you can get rid of it by changing just one setting.

Step 1 - you go to Tools than click on Internet Options

Step 2 – Select the Security tab and click on Custom level…

Step 3 – Scroll down until you find the group Miscellaneous

Step 4 – Under Display mixed content, select Enable then click OK than OK again on the next screen

Step 5 – You’re done!

Happy surfing

Reset Your WordPress Theme Using phpMyAdminReset

Posted by Philippe on

September 24th, 2010 |

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Categories : How To

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Hot To Manually Reset Your WordPress Theme From The Database Using phpMyAdmin

**Before you do any modifications on your database/WordPress install, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE BACKUP of both your database and your site.

If you don’t know how to do this then stop reading NOW and find someone than can do it for you. Don’t contact me because you have broken your WordPress! You use the content of this post at your own risk.

Log into your phpMyAdmin interface, make sure you choose the database of your WordPress install and just run these 3 Update Queries one by one.

**You have do know the prefix that was used during the WordPress install. To find it, in phpMyAdmin, look at the start of each table name just before the underscore “_”. The default WorPress prefix is wp_ as in the following SQL queries. If there is another prefix, simply replace the wp_ by your prefix. So if your tables prefixes are wp4Fe_, you would have UPDATE wp4Fe_options …..

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = "default" WHERE option_name = "template"
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = "default" WHERE option_name = "stylesheet"
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = "default" WHERE option_name = "current_theme"

If the queries have run successfully, your WordPress theme should be back to the default theme. If you did something wrong and your blog is not working anymore you can just restore the database with the backup you just did before starting the modifications. You did do a backup, Right?

I’m not giving more explanation because if you don’t know what to do from just this than you should not do it at all!

If you think I’m not being fare to you and you want more details, go to this blog (AT YOUR OWN RISK), it’s full of screen captures and a longer explanation.