Special Pricing: Accusonus ERA 4

We demonstrated the Accusonus ERA plugins some time back. Good news - they’re on sale for up to 70% off through April 28th over at the Accusonus site. Two previous demos below.

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Accusonus De-Esser Special Pricing

If you need a good de-esser, Accusonus has special pricing on their ERA4 De-esser through February 14th 2020. You can add this to your DAW or NLE video editing app for $9 USD. Find the details on the ERA4 De-Esser. Full disclosure - this link is an affiliate link. I earn from qualifying purchases.

Here’s a video where we demonstrated several of the Accusonus plugins:

Zoom F4 Special Pricing

If you’re in the market for an audio recorder with great preamps, timecode, and a rugged build, the Zoom F4 has special pricing over at B&H in August. Check the Zoom F4’s details over at B&H.

I’ll be wrapping up my work on our Zoom F4 course at the end of this month so you can learn how to use your new F4!

Price Drops on Zoom F4 and F8 Recorders, FRC-8 Control Surface Coming Soon

Many of of you know that I am rather fond of the two Zoom F series recorders the F8 and F4. For me they strike a very good balance between price, quality, and feature set. The preamps are very impressive for the price, the build quality is good, and they have the features that independent filmmakers need.

And now, somehow, Zoom has managed to reduce the pricing on the F4 by $50 and the F8 by $100. The Value to price ratio just got even better. Nice work Zoom!

Earlier this month, they also announced the Zoom FRC-8, a control surface for the F4 and F8 which allows you to mix more effectively. Larger mixers/control surfaces like this make it much easier to manage the madness that can occur during production. I have one on order and will be reviewing it a few weeks after it arrives.

I expect that this will be a big improvement over the iPad app Zoom has for the F8. While the app is great for metadata entry and setting the gain before shooting, I did not find it to work well when in the heat of a recording. Smoothly moving the faders on a touch screen just wasn't the same because they would jump too suddenly. The FRC 8 also allows you to connect a USB keyboard making metadata entry even faster. Can't wait to try the FRC-8!

Special Pricing on SanDisk SD Cards

B&H Photo has special pricing on the SanDisk Extreme SD cards today only. Less than $25 for a 64GB SDXC UHS-I U3 card is pretty good. I've had great luck with these in my audio recorders, including my Zoom F8 and Sound Devices 633.