Channel Redundancy question
 

I am going to do some location sound recording on a short film shooting on a Panasonic DVX100A. I plan on renting a Sound Devices 302 mixer, boom & shock mount, Sennheizer ME66, Sony head phones. It is still up in the air if we can afford 2 wireless lavs. We will record directly into camera and I will "mix" and boom at the same time.

If no lavs, I was planning on running the sound to camera on channel 1 and dub the sound on channel 2 but reduce the level to reduce distortion/clipping beyond what the SD302's limiter can handle. My question is then, do I do that in camera i.e. via the set up menu? Or do I get some kind of a splitter before going into camera so the camera litterally has two XLR inputs.

If we can afford lavs, I plan to mix them down on channel 1 and run the boom to channel 2. Then the question is I would need an dual XLR cable from the mixer to camera with two sets of XLR plugs?

Or perhaps there is another way to do it? Thanks.
Thomas

My question is then, do I do that in camera i.e. via the set up menu? Or do I get some kind of a splitter before going into camera so the camera litterally has two XLR inputs.

>> I'd do it at the camera.

If we can afford lavs, I plan to mix them down on channel 1 and run the boom to channel 2. Then the question is I would need an dual XLR cable from the mixer to camera with two sets of XLR plugs?

Or perhaps there is another way to do it? Thanks.

>>You need a proper "audio hose" that has two balanced XLR runs and a headphone return that plugs into the camera headphone output and plugs into the 302 camera return so you can monitor the camera audio from the mixer.

Regards,

Ty Ford