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June 6th, 2009, 11:55 AM | #16 |
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Try a trim level of -30 on your EX, that'll give you some head room.
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Can you comment on my audio samples posted above? Is the distortion in the first similar to what you have heard? Is it adequately GONE in the second clip? Quote:
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Obviously the first half of that is less technically complicated. The second bit is called sound mixing and takes years to learn through practice. In fact the old Micron radio mic's had a section on doing this in the manual and advised hitting the inbuilt limiter hard for news reports on the side of roads. |
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June 13th, 2009, 11:03 PM | #20 |
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I was out recording a live concert using the EX1's built-in mikes and the distortion was there and far worse.
The sound was loud, but the visual levels on the manually-set input never rose above 70% of the travel. I have not yet switched the camera into a more informative display mode for audio levels (does it have one?), but I'm just stymied. I think there is some circuit quite near the camera -- and one common to built-in mikes and external mikes -- that is screwing this up. This is depressing me now. I am supposed to shoot during the next 2 days. tone |
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I only just skimmed this series of posts, so sorry if this is redundant info...
I've gotten burned twice now by the audio inputs on the ex3. No idea if its similar to the ex1 or not, but the problem i've had is sending out line level output into the ex3 but accidently leaving it on mic level in with phantom turned on. Now, this is a pretty stupid mistake to make, and normally easily caught by glancing at the meters, but the weird thing is that the meters on the ex3 look fine, despite being fed a signal blowing the snot out of the inputs. The ex3 headphone output is really quiet, so the soundie would switch to monitoring the mixer vs. the return from the camera and missed the problem for take after take... twice Doh. Anyways, probably unrelated to your problem, and possibly already covered, but I am now VERY careful when shooting with the ex3 to demand the return is monitored, since the meters on the ex3 (perhaps the undefeatable limiter spoken about earlier) don't give you any indication whatsoever if you overload the input by 20+db. weird. |
June 24th, 2009, 03:05 PM | #22 |
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FYI, I think I am now actually getting fair audio and that my post of the 14th was that listening to the test clips I'd made in XDCAM Clip Browser was creating distortion on playback on my powerbook (for some reason). Importing the same audio into FCP on my iMac shows sound without this distortion.
I can't see how this happened, but have to guess a slightly different codec was used between the two software apps and the two machines. tone |
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