I've had some weirdness with my Zoom H5. I recorded a couple of our gigs last weekend, loaded the files from one of them into Reaper and a bit of it is marked ERROR - some investigation shows around 14 seconds is just missing (we filmed it too, so have things to compare it with). Playing the audio, you can hear the join just about, but yeah, when comparing it to the camera audio, the H5 just seems to pause recording and jump ahead. Still gives one continous audio file, just it's around 14 seconds shorter than it should be!
Anyone ever encountered that before? Any suggestions what might be the culprit...?
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Buy some new SD cards would be my solution too. Not forgetting that Zooms require the correct generation of SD to operate.
Frustrating! I'm going to check what Zoom have to say about the SD card maybe...
For long files like gigs and concerts, and because SD cards are finite, I usually record on .mp3 but 44.1kHz for putting home recording of pieces onto SoundCloud because it seems to translate well into .wav files.
Still never had problem you are having. Do you still have the large users manual for the H5? Any answers in there?
P.S. 44.1kHz is the sampling rate for 'CD standard recording' but the files are much bigger than mp3. SoundCloud will label your tracks as 'HD' if you download as .wav. I can hear the difference personally but if you ever want to email audio files .mp3 is more convenient because the files are so much smaller. Generally mp3 is adequate for everyday listening back but is not adequate for fine recording for albums or professional or archival work.
Hope that helps but it may not!
I'll investigate a buffer size too, I've not seen one but haven't looked directly