Zoom L12 Simple Tutorial

[@sarahmeere4816]

I'm a secondary school music teacher starting out with silent bands using a Zoom Livetrak L-12 and your videos have been the key to getting everything up and running. I am SO grateful that you've done them!

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you so very much for your kind words! I love recording music and I have a few friends that have the same board and that is the reason I started the videos. I had no idea so many people would enjoy them! I am working on a new one that I hope will be ready soon. I will go through the steps of recording a song with the musicians in remote locations. How to exchange files, synchronize and mix the files to make the music sound as if it was recorded all together. This is how most of the music in our channel was recorded. I hope you watch and if you haven't subscribed, please do so! Thanks again.!

[@sugarcanerush]

If there is anything you would like for me to address on the videos, please let me know!

[@scoooterbob2321]

I've been rifling through a bunch of vids on this unit. This is easily the easiest to comprehend. Looking forward to the other parts!

[@learnfromthemastersmusicou7241]

Helpful step-by-step breakdown, keeping it simple. Just got my L12 and this video is timely and appreciated - thanks for taking the time and putting it out for everyone!

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you for listening! I'm planning to do a follow up soon!

[@drdocmic]

Excellent I appreciate how clear and precise this was

[@sugarcanerush]

@@drdocmic Thank you for listening! New one should be coming out in the next couple of days! How to bring the level up on our mixes! Check it out.

[@scottlayne3840]

Your video was great! I use the L12 for my church audio and I've been looking for a good tutorial that discussed the details that are missed by others. So thank you and God bless.

[@sugarcanerush]

@@scottlayne3840 thank you for watching! Glad it helped. Check out our playlists, we have a lot of our music and more tutorials posted. 😊

[@desertfoxleo]

Thank you so much for doing these videos - they are immensely helpful to someone like me who is trying to learn how to use this board!

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you for listening! Glad you liked them. I am working on a new one where I will get into the basics of the compressor included in this board and compressors in general. Hope you tune in!

[@desertfoxleo]

@@sugarcanerush Great! I've got a bunch of demos I'm trying to record and I need to learn this board! I'll definitely tune into whatever new content you put up on this device!

[@michaelb2645]

Excellent! Looking forward to watching your subsequent videos, thank you.

[@shadowridersiii3080]

Excellent overview. Thanks for taking the time to produce this helpful tutorial.👍

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you for watching! Please explore the channel and listen to our music playlists! More music and tutorials coming soon! If there is anything you would like for me to include in the next video, just let me know!

[@sjplvideo]

This is excellent. Thank you for breaking things down in a highly digestible format.

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you for listening! I am planning to have more on the way but have been busy recording more music. New one out today I hope you subscribe to our channel and listen to our music, it's what we live for!

[@pjamesbridge]

Just purchased an L-12 and grateful for your content. Thank you for sharing this!

[@sugarcanerush]

Thanks for watching! Glad it helped. Just finished part 2 and will be working on part 3! If you haven't subscribed, please do so and check out all our music videos. All home made with a lot of love.

[@JksGuitarCave]

Perfect for noobs like me that have little experience with mixers… great job and thanks 👍🏻 I’ll head over to part 2 now…

[@NewsFuZe747]

You did great for your first video my friend And thanks a bunch needed to figure out how to overdub Thanks for the help😊

[@bongocuba]

Thanks for the explanation. In all years involved with music I never mingled with a board. Simple and detailed.

[@MichaelDaniels]

What a great video. Thank you. So we use an L-20 Mixers, same board just more inputs. One thing is we used the 17/18 to add our keyboard, however we cannot adjust the gain on those. Is there a trick to make this better? Or should we waste a track say 15 and 16 and separate the keyboard and pan left and right? Or would you recommend just bringing a mono sound in and use one track like all the other instruments? Thanks for any insight

[@sugarcanerush]

Michael, the stereo channels that have the two inputs, work well for keys, synth and any stereo instrument. What I do is have the musicial play and control the input from their instrument's master volume. Monitor the LEDs coming in and get the best level possible. That should work. It's how I have recorded keyboards many times. If you have enough channels and want more control, it's ok to use two of the mic/line imputs and control with the gain know. Just remember to pan one to the left and the other to the right when mixing. For recording it won't matter. I hope this helps. Check out our latest video on raising the volume of our mixes. Just posted tonight! Thanks for listening!

[@MichaelDaniels]

@@sugarcanerush thank you for your detailed response. I think you do a great job and will for sure check out that video

[@trayejohnston1352]

You did a great job explaining it. I keep planning on it but haven't. Good job man.

[@sugarcanerush]

Thanks for watching and your kind comments. If you are looking to easily record yourself from home, this is a great unit for the price. I am planning to do some very short but detailed tutorials showing how to use the board to record tracks intended for remote collaborations. Stay tuned.

[@ethanG222]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you my man

[@CerminStudio-j8u]

I sure enjoyed your good tutorial!

[@underwater_and_randoms]

That was great, thank you so much, really appreciate the simple calm explanations. Great video. Onto the next !

[@dreamsbandpei]

Thank you for the tutorial. Great job

[@glennaker4760]

Your a great help man, very well covered Thank You Sir

[@sugarcanerush]

Thanks for watching! Check out all 3. I am planning my next one. Let me know if there is anything you want me to cover. Check out our music on the channel and feel free to share!

[@sugarcanerush]

Glen, I got an email from KZbin with a question from you, but I cand find the comment. As far as Check your SW mode, I never heard it before but maybe try turning off the board and make sure the mode switch is set properly. I'll look around and see if I can find something else.

[@TheFendertak]

Wow without doubt the best tutorial ever explaining a mixing desk, even down to explaining sweepable mid frequencys, it's actually the fist time ever in all the years in music I can actually understand how these work, anyway I'm contemplating buying either this or the L20 zoom desk at the moment, I had bought and used the presonus ar16c desk and returned it even though its excellent at recording, but for live use it drove me simple trying to get a good sound from it and it's effects were very poor really, looking at your videos here on the Zoom, I would love to know how you rate its effects, I see it has 2 plate only but 4 vocal effects, truth be told all I want is a lush reverb with a little delay suited to singing live, and the fact you can adjust parameter of time and delay is a plus here, but how good are the effects on this desk, also I have seen a video on this desk where it was said that when recording anything below the select button do not get recorded, so in other words if I were to record my live show on a night, I will only get a flat recording with no effects on the SD card, I'll look at your tutorials again here just in case I actually missed out on something, but really have to applaud you for taking time to do this excellent demonstration, if this desk is well suited to live use and will record what I hear through my front of house speakers including my vocal effect, then I will definitely purchase but go for the zoom L20, await your reply and thanks...

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you for your kind words! I am trying to get into as much detail as possible and I am aiming at the less experienced user. I think that this board is perfect for PA, stand alone recorder and Audio interface. It has a lot of features to cover and I'm hoping to get to most. As far as the effect section, I think in this budget you are not going to get much better effects. It has a good variety and for instance the Hall reverb sound real good to me. You are not going to be able to use reverb and delay together. It only allows one effect at a time. But I think you would be happy with the existing effects. As far as recording the on board effects, You are right, all recordings are flat and do not record the effects. But if you record your band live, you have the chance later to make a mix on the board and record to the "master" channel in stereo and it will record the on board effects. So you will end up with a Masteer stereo track of your mix that will include effects and eq. I prefer to move all the tracks to a DAW on the computer and add eq and effects on the mix there. But it can be done recording directly to the Master track.

[@sugarcanerush]

Here is an update.. the Vocal 2 and Vocal 4 have reverb and delay combined. To me they sound pretty damn good. Had never tried them before.

[@Amikica]

Excellent Sir, thanks so musch!!

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you! And thank you for subscribing.

[@paulastonmusic]

Excellent video

[@denniskessler7983]

Good job. Keep it up. More content.

[@sugarcanerush]

Thank you, Dennis! Working on more soon. Just posted a new video of our music, have a listen, share like and comment!

[@CesarPeron]

Is it possible to capture effects and faders via USB (Audio Interface mode) on your PC? Because on Windows, I only have a flat microphone sound.

[@sugarcanerush]

This board records before the effect and EQ chain. But if you need to record a track with the on board effects, you can do so by recording from the Master input. Select on your DAW the "Driver Master" input and it will record with the effects. If you have tracks already recorded on board, you can play the tracks and record a mix using the Master imput. It will include the effects.

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

So my audio only comes out of channel 1-2 and nothing from other channel inputs. Is my new Zoom L12 broken?

[@sugarcanerush]

Not sure what you mean that your audio only comes out of channel 1-2. Are you using the board as an Audio Interface with your computer? Are you running the board as stand alone? I need to know how you have your board set up to be able to help with this. The audio outs are in the Master out section or Monitor out.

[@JP-rf7px]

If you get low output, you may have the plugs wired wrong. The monitor outputs are set up for phones, with tip and ring both separate hot signals, not balanced out. So to get a line level signal use a stereo plug but hook hot to tip and ground to sleeve and leave ring unconnected. I am using the unit as a 4 channel recorder to archive my collection of quad SQ, QS, and CD-4 lps. Each input and monitor channel is used for one of the 4 channels from my quad decoder. The mixer monitor outs drive the "discreet analog surround inputs on my Marantz receiver with plenty of volume. My only beef is the inability to label tracks with names more easily.

[@Chad.Flenderman]

Hello Family! for some reason I'm getting a error that says driver won't initialize. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the l12 driver but nothing. Im trying to sync with my MPC and reason software.

[@sugarcanerush]

I am not familiar with the MPC units. I imagine the driver that is giving you problem is the MPC driver? You say you uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, you mean the MPC driver or the Zoom driver? Are you on Windows 11? I'll keep looking to see if I can help you.

[@Chad.Flenderman]

i mean on my computer. the computer recognizes it but when I try to load it into my MPC beats software or my Reason 11 daw it says "cant initizize driver". I've also tried to plug the zoom directly into the MPC, I'm able to get sound out of usb 1-2 or 3-4 but I can't get it to split tracks across the board, even after changing the outputs on the MPC. Thanks again for your feedback. @@sugarcanerush

[@عبدالجاكولالصلصالاني]

one question..does anyone here knows if the on board effects can be heard while livestreaming on facebook/youtube or even when just recording in a DAW?

[@sugarcanerush]

Thanks for listening! Haven't done livestreaming, but if you are sending the master mix to your livestream, you should be able to hear the effects. Let me know if this helps.

[@GWOPUPorDIE]

good job A1

[@sugarcanerush]

Thanks for watching! More coming! Check out our channel a lot of the music there was recorded with the board.