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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ronvanderkolk" data-source="post: 61063" data-attributes="member: 9769">You're welcome!I do not own the Zoom H4N or the mentioned cable myself. I've just looked it up and the cable is an 25dB attenuation and splitter cable. I'm not sure if the attenuation is beneficial for the D800, that has a weak input. Your goal is a low input setting on the D800, between 0 and 5, to keep the preamp noise down. If your solution requires a higher setting on the D800, you might want to try it with a normal cable without the attenuation. Instead of using a splitter cable you could monitor the audio from the D800's headphone output. You should only use an attenuator when the audio sounds distorted in the final recording.Fine-tuning is always necessary, depending on the distance between the subject and the microphone, the audio volume of the subject, etc.</blockquote>