Chris Harding
September 17th, 2009, 07:04 AM
Hi Guys
I almost exclusively use my audio on manual on the HMC70 cams but I hooked up the radio mic with a spare cable and plugged it into the front external mic input and set the channel on "auto"
I was surprised that even with silence, the auto level didn't seem to have the usual "pumping" effect that older camcorders had where the gain shot up as soon as there was silence and then was reduced as the mic received input from a voice.
My older Proline cams (DVC20's) had a "Manual + AGC" setting which allowed you to manually set the level but also clamped the signal if it went over 0db and had a max limit of +6db.
Just in case I ever have to use the audio section on auto...does anyone know if Panasonic have made improvement on the level control so you could, in fact, get usable audio from it
even if the sound levels are going from almost silence to normal????? or will you still get the very annoying level increase during silence???
Thanks
Chris
I almost exclusively use my audio on manual on the HMC70 cams but I hooked up the radio mic with a spare cable and plugged it into the front external mic input and set the channel on "auto"
I was surprised that even with silence, the auto level didn't seem to have the usual "pumping" effect that older camcorders had where the gain shot up as soon as there was silence and then was reduced as the mic received input from a voice.
My older Proline cams (DVC20's) had a "Manual + AGC" setting which allowed you to manually set the level but also clamped the signal if it went over 0db and had a max limit of +6db.
Just in case I ever have to use the audio section on auto...does anyone know if Panasonic have made improvement on the level control so you could, in fact, get usable audio from it
even if the sound levels are going from almost silence to normal????? or will you still get the very annoying level increase during silence???
Thanks
Chris