Windows Screen Recorder With 5.1 Audio

As most of you have noticed by now, it's extremely difficult to find software drivers in an audio interface that also work with 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound in Windows. Focusrite makes awesome drivers for Windows that work in both ASIO and WDM. I previously fought for over two years with an expensive Antelope Discreet 8 Synergy Core interface. Antelope's drivers on Windows are slow and unreliable AND they do not work in any way for 5.1 surround setups outside of the DAW. I consulted with the Antelope audio engineers and they said that their drivers will not work for 5.1 games or movies. I'm never buying another Antelope interface ever again! The Antelope hardware is great, but the drivers are garbage for Windows users. There's a night and day different between Antelope's drivers and Focusrite's drivers in Windows. The Focusrite Control software also searches and handles any firmware updates automatically. After you install the Focusrite Control drivers, in you Windows Sound options you can click on the Focusrite USB driver and get a Configure button at the bottom. Clicking on that Configure button takes you to the Speaker Configuration where you have the following choices: Stereo, Quadraphonic, 5.1 Surround, and 7.1 Surround. From there any games you play that have 5.1 surround like, Alien Isolation, Division 2, Tome Raider, etc. will work perfectly! Also movies going through my Cyberlink Power DVD software sound amazing! By the way, for my setup, I'm running the Scarlet 18i20 3rd Gen, two Adam A77Xs and three Adam A7Xs (looking to also get an Adam Sub8 in the near future). So if you are a 5.1 sound junky like I am, and you want your DAW, your games, and your movies to run through your audio interface with reliable drivers that just work in Windows... then you'll want to stick with Focusrite!

I spent a long time looking into various 5.1 surround bass management solutions that would work with regular Windows audio as well as audio through a DAW for studio and game development use. There are various software solutions for each, but most would not give consistent results between Windows system and DAW audio. I started looking for either a bass management hardware unit (some add latency) or a surround controller with bass management (way more expensive than this sub), then came upon the few Genelec subwoofers which have built-in surround bass management. I only have a 5.1 surround system so I chose this sub, and am happy I did so. While the cost is higher than I would like, there aren't that many other subs that handle surround bass management, and it handles both bass management and LFE duties well. The manual is comprehensive, and there are little switches and a knob on the side that allow you to customize rolloff, boosts, power saving, 4 phases, and sensitivity. Noise floor is very low, and it pumps out enough oomph for my calibrated small home studio even with the largest rolloff as well as the lowest input sensitivity. I'm not using it to shake the house, but rather to hear the lowest frequencies correctly while mixing and listening to all kinds of stuff. It's also smaller than some other subs, and that's a plus for my room as well. I don't really have anything to complain about for this sub other than Genelec's pricing, but since there are few subs that handle surround bass management and I didn't find any cheaper than this, it is what it is. Great product.

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Great recorder for professional audio.

Tascam has done it again, with this great audio recorder.

The Zoom H6 is a great example of evolving toward professional level. The tactile feel and controls are MUCH better than past versions of this recorder, and the ability to take a line-in means great phantom powering preamps like those from Sound Devices now have a great digital back end. With a wavering standard for quality, given the landscape of cheaper, quality equipment, like cameras from Black Magic Design (of which I own two,) combine with this recorder to say 5.1 recording is not out of the question, for a very affordable price. For common shooting apart from 5.1, four inputs will handle quite a bit of the daily grind. The provided mics are likely all you will need for room tone and many general recording situations. I have attached many a radio lavalier to the former model, but cannot wait to put the H6 to the test. I plan on shooting up to two feature films per year, and this will be the recorder on set. I was trepidatious about Zoom in the past, but the H6 has removed the caveats and doubts. Given the low prices for their mics and accessories, I would recommend everyone get everything. There is little doubt this system will fail to impress. Once upon a time we were stuck with analog Nagras. Many of the greatest films of all time used antiquated technologies which seemed fine until the digital future jumped up to greet us. The Zoom H6 fits into the mindset of the digital filmmaker.

I cannot get enough of this mic and recorder. You get really good audio and you can still keep a low profile.

I use it to mount my audio recorder for field recordings.

I love it, great audio. And a I love the in microphone recorder.

The professional look and quality when connected to my audio recorder.