Sound capture

Today we had an introduction into using a peice of audio equipment called marantz which is a digital recording device for recording sound effects. the bloke who came in and told us about it when into detail about hwo ot use it and how to resent the mashine, he showed us how to format it and how to set up the equipment, he pointed out what all the number represented aka the number of tracks we recorded and the amount of recorded time there is left on the memory. he told us about the two different mics the long one for recording sounds from a distance and one for recording sounds close up, he told us that we wont need to use many of the setting on the device so he jsut went threw all the basic setting of it , he told us about pre sets were u can switch settings quickly