Super Clamp with Zoom H4n
The Zoom H4n is a great audio recorder and much cleaner floor noise than the H1. Whenever possible (which means when i'm not lazy) I try to break it out as the primary sound recording device. One problem is finding a place to put it. I usually move the microphone off camera and out of frame and run a long microphone cable to the Zoom H4n when doing interviews. With the Zoom H4n close to me, I can monitor sound and adjust levels.
Super Clamp with Zoom H4n on LightStand
Something I like to carry with me are good accessory clamps. Having good versatile accessory clamps can help you mount much more than audio recorders. One trick I used in Vegas (no tripods allowed and super crowded) was to mount my DSLR camera to a small monopod, Rode VideoMic on top, and then clamp the Zoom H4n onto the Monopod. With the standard 1/4 x 20 thread you can even mount a small Ball Head for some tilt action.
Clamped to Shoulder Rig
These clamps can mount anything from small cameras, flashes, LED video lights, microphones, and more. I'm using something like the 'Super Clamp' which is fairly large and costs quite a bit of money and is overkill for such light accessories. For a smaller clamp you can opt for the Manfrotto 'Nano Clamps', but those also will run you around $30-$40 dollars.
So (below) i've come across these cheap clamps normally used in Photography. It's an all metal construction with a wide clamp area. The V design helps clamps to round poles without slippage, but can be mounted to even flat surfaces. Table tops, chair legs, standing lamps, bike handlebars, you name it it might be possible. With minimal effort you can competely replace the Light Stand adapter with a Tripod Ball head, making it a smaller form factor with more flexibility. Through a retailer, they'll run you a good amount mainly because they are stamped with the scarlet letter word Photography, but at least online they aren't too shabby and can help clamp up a good amount of gear to just about anything.
Cheap C Clamps for Accessory Mounting
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imgpro615
THIS IS ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF BRILLIANT, COST-EFFECTIVE DIY/DIFMC (do it for 'more cheaper') IDEAS!!
GRATITUDES!!
Rudy
For those looking online for these, they're also known as mayfer clamps.
FCJ
Any one knows how to mount a edirol r-44 to a 7d or any dslr with a simple rig?? or clamp to the tripod or something,
thank's alot
Kai Productions
I found a super cheap alternative! Its called "Duct Tape"!!
Emm
Post author@Garrick - good find. Yeah drilling is not a problem, the recorder is soooo light, I think those would work too.
Garrick
@ Emm i was looking at these yesterday but the holeon both are the wrong size correct? https://www.hardwareelf.com/elf/miscellaneous.jsp I think their is still room to drill on them though.
Oliver
I use the Manfrotto Nano Clamp in combination with the tiny cullmann 2.7 ballhead (https://www.cullmann-foto.de/en/detail/id/cb27.html) and a hotshoe-1/4-adapter. It is a very nice and small solution (for my H1) if you want to remain unimposing...
Michael
I've come to like my Gorillapod for these applications...
I have the SLR Zoom, which is a bit overkill for the H4n, but it does the trick. i tend to wrap it around one leg of my tripod.
there are also cheaper gorillapods, smaller ones that would do the trick. And there are even some aftermarket ones, that go as cheap as 10-15 bucks...
just sayin' 😉
Emm
Post author@Garrick - I was thinking 'Money Clip' and then just drill a hole through it. Then just run a small 1/4 x 20 bolt to the Zoom H1. I'm looking for something like this:
Metal Belt Clip with Pre-Drilled Holes
Garrick
Cool, have you came across any simple belt clips for the zoom? Been looking around, this might do though.
Emm
Post author@kph - The Zoom Microphone has a 'stereo' microphone that picks up sound very close to it, and from both sides. It is a great quality audio recording device, but not ideal when there is too much distracting ambient noise (like cars, traffic, lawn mowers, who knows). The Rode VideoMic is a 'shotgun' microphone and picks up audio in front of itself and less of the sides, top, bottom, and rear. It does a better job at picking up just what's in front of it, and even though you might pick up other sounds around it, you can totally tell what audio is more in focus just by listening. The audio in front of the microphone will sound louder than anything else.
kph
im new to audio recording... but why would you use the Rhode Mic instead of the ZoomH4n's built in mic?
Garrett Gibbons
A nice clamp. Here's the one I swear by for mounting small lights, Zoom H4n, small c-cam palmcorders, etc...:
Pedco UltraClamp Assembly