David Gibson
May 26th, 2009, 06:32 PM
I have an audio setup that is probably not atypical. I wanted to run it by this group to see if you had done something similar, have not but think it might work, or you think its a really bad idea.
I have basically three XLR inputs that I need to get into the two XLR inputs on the side of the A1. I have a shotgun mic running into XLR-1 on the side of the camera. I also have an wireless mic system with two mics. For both to work, I also need to plug the two XLR inputs into the camera but only have XLR-2 left. The reason I'm doing it this way is to use lav-1 and lav-2 for the people in the video. I want to also use the shotgun as a backup, bascially, in case someone runs their arm or hand across the mic and I get bad audio from the lav system.
So, I was thinking of still putting the shotgun in XLR-1 on the side of the camera and putting a y-shaped XLR adapter that will take the two XLR inputs for the lav. As much as anything, I want to make sure running both XLR inputs into one XLR jack on the side of the camera won't short something out or do something else bad (before I plug it in). And I want to make sure that I won't get really bad audio as a result of having this kind of setup.
Has anyone done anything like this? Recommended? Or would you recommend using a field sound board? I'd rather avoid the sound board because I don't need an additional costs right now.
Thanks in advance.
dave
I have basically three XLR inputs that I need to get into the two XLR inputs on the side of the A1. I have a shotgun mic running into XLR-1 on the side of the camera. I also have an wireless mic system with two mics. For both to work, I also need to plug the two XLR inputs into the camera but only have XLR-2 left. The reason I'm doing it this way is to use lav-1 and lav-2 for the people in the video. I want to also use the shotgun as a backup, bascially, in case someone runs their arm or hand across the mic and I get bad audio from the lav system.
So, I was thinking of still putting the shotgun in XLR-1 on the side of the camera and putting a y-shaped XLR adapter that will take the two XLR inputs for the lav. As much as anything, I want to make sure running both XLR inputs into one XLR jack on the side of the camera won't short something out or do something else bad (before I plug it in). And I want to make sure that I won't get really bad audio as a result of having this kind of setup.
Has anyone done anything like this? Recommended? Or would you recommend using a field sound board? I'd rather avoid the sound board because I don't need an additional costs right now.
Thanks in advance.
dave