Recording Sounds:

Recording with the zoom H5:

Firstly you need to power on the Zoom H5 Recorder
Then you plug in the headphones so you are able to hear your sounds.
You set the reorder into recording mode (Stereo) and select you inputs L & R
Press the record button and set the recording level
You then press the recording button again - A counter will start.
You then press stop when you have finished
Replay it to check you recorded something
Then take some recording notes and keep organized.

Once you know what sounds you need for your production, you can start sourcing them. You can do this multiple ways, either through going out and recording them yourself from the internet. Both have advantages and disadvantages:

- The internet has a-lot of sounds you can download.

- If you record your own sounds, you can get exactly what you're looking for, and you can record sounds in the manner best suited to you and your production, however, good quality equipment can be expensive, and certain sounds are going to be very difficult to find and/or recreate yourself. Its also much more time consuming than downloading sounds off the internet.

I like to use a mixture of both, trying to find what I can from the internet and then filling in the blanks with my own recordings.