How Do You Monitor Digital Audio Recording?
Monitoring the sound of digital audio recordings is done in much the same way as monitoring audio recordings. All digital recorders will have an analog output, allowing you to monitor with headphones or speakers. Monitoring levels into a digital audio recorder is a little different than monitoring analog recording levels. We will discuss those slight differences below. Monitoring of the sound of a digital recorder on playback can be done with either headphones or speakers. The easiest way is to connect your headphone plug to the headphone jack of the output on the digital audio device. You may need a mini-plug to ¼ inch stereo headphone adapter if your headphone jack is mini-plug and the digital audio device has a ¼ inch stereo output port. Monitoring an audio source with speakers connected to a digital audio device will require amplification of some kind. Most, if not all manufactured digital audio recorders do not contain an amplifier. The easiest way to monitor with speakers is usin