line in for the HF100

[kenrubes]

Hi guys..

Firstly, I'm new to this forum.

I have an HF100. It's great. But I am having a hell of a time with recording in stereo.

I have a music studio. I am basically running the line out from my boards (via a stereo 1/4" female to 1/8th male adaptor) into the HF100 mic in. In other words, the left and right 1/4" outs run into a 1/4" female to 1/8th male adaptor into the HF100. I've also done the same with the left and right RCA outs.

It WON'T record in stereo. It's driving me nuts. It's recording strictly to the left channel. I know I am missing something fundamental.

Help!

[Chamber005]

Hi guys..

Firstly, I'm new to this forum.

I have an HF100. It's great. But I am having a hell of a time with recording in stereo.

I have a music studio. I am basically running the line out from my boards (via a stereo 1/4" female to 1/8th male adaptor) into the HF100 mic in. In other words, the left and right 1/4" outs run into a 1/4" female to 1/8th male adaptor into the HF100. I've also done the same with the left and right RCA outs.

It WON'T record in stereo. It's driving me nuts. It's recording strictly to the left channel. I know I am missing something fundamental.

Help!


Hm. I've got the HF200. I checked the cam and the entire booklet. There's no changing the application of the audio (e.g. move from right to left). You can only increase levels. So I'd say you can at least ignore the camera. I might be confused, but I don't understand why the cables need to split. Shouldn't your board have a single jack in from a device that's recording in stereo? Have you tried running a single wire into your board? I see the phrase "digital stereo creator" on these cams. Mayhaps the audio isn't the same thing as, say, plugging an electric guitar into an amp. Maybe it's more like complex data and thus can't be split between two connections like you're saying here?

I'm no tech person. Just brainstorming. I'd say just try hooking it up to the right channel first to make sure it's working, and then see if there's a way to use a single connector into your sound board.

[kenrubes]

Hi Chamber ..

I appreciate the quick response.

Chamber, my boards have individual left and right outs (both 1/4 " and RCA). So yes, I'm doing a sort of reverse split, as it were.....2---> 1 into the camera. I actually have also tried the phones out of my board, which is one stereo 1/4" out. I then converted that to a 1/8" into the camera, and STILL only the left channel.

What is this stereo creator thing? That could somehow relate to all of this. I think this all somehow boils down to it being a mic input and not a line input...but honestly I'm not sure.

[Jordan_S]

I actually have also tried the phones out of my board, which is one stereo 1/4" out. I then converted that to a 1/8" into the camera, and STILL only the left channel.

Are you positive that every component from the board to the cam is stereo? (And when you listen with your headphones from the board, it's stereo?)

[kenrubes]

Hey Jordan..
Yep, it's all sonically good. Clean left and right outs in a 2-->1 adaptor. I'm pretty sure the problem is that it's a mic in and not a line in. I wonder if there is a convertor adaptor from mic to line?

[Chamber005]

And you've made sure that the onboard Mic is recording in stereo? My gut tells me that this just isn't going to work. If you plug a single Mic into the jack and that records in stereo, then it's obvious that the splitter scenario won't work. You shouldn't be using this to record sound anyway if you can help it.