help @ live event - sound from board in DVX

ihatedv

ihatedv

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I am shooting a live band in an hour or so. Last minute it turns out that there are sound people here. How can I get sound from the board to my camera. Xlr? Which input 1 or 2? What do I set my audio level to? Do I even need to set my levels?

Thanks in advance, I'm in a pinch.
 
Well I guess you're already there since you posted this 2 hours and 20 minutes ago, but all you got to do is get a feed from the switchboard out into your camera via xlr. Set it to input 2 and switch both channels to 2 as well. Then set the levels so that it's loud but not peaking.

OR if you want to move around... have them record it, and then synch it up later

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Hey thanks, the band hasn't gone on yet, just finished sound check. Thanks for the help, I only had one channel on 2.
 
well, after going thru the footage as I capture, somethin wasn't right.. The audio seems very very low.. I can't hardly hear the band... I had my mic/line swith to line on both channels?
 
When I play the clip in the timeline the audio level are fine, between -6 and -10, but the sound is very muffled . Going through the camera setting I noticed the MIC ALC was on. Can this be the problem?
 
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ihatedv said:
When I play the clip in the timeline the audio level are fine, between -6 and -10, but the sound is very muffled . Going through the camera setting I noticed the MIC ALC was on. Can this be the problem?
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Anyone have insight on this??

Barry?
 
Can you post a sample? ALC is a peak limiting circuit on the DVX and shouldn't really kick in at all if the audio was around -10 or -6... and even at that, it shouldn't create a "muffled" sound. But it'll help to hear what you're hearing.

What kind of output did you get from the house mixer? Was it an aux feed? A master output?

And for venues like this, it's always very helpful to have a mic in the room. The board feed, especially if it isn't a custom aux mix just for the camera, is not going to sound great. The shortcomings there can be balanced out by recording the room to the other channel, and mixing the two in post.
 
ihatedv said:
Here is a SAMPLE 6MB. Not sure about the type of output from the mixer.

Thanks a lot!
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Eek. That's full of pops and clicks... not very good level, and has no high-end.

That's a product of a crappy feed from the board, if I had to make a guess. Now, what's causing it to be so bad? Without knowing what the house mixer had running, it's hard to tell. If the sound guy had very heavy compression on the signal, that'll certainly kill high-end. If he had an EQ running on it and had all the high end trimmed out (don't know why he'd want to do that, but I've seen some pretty sketchy club "engineers") then the signal would also be bad. But there are so many variables there, and it's hard to guage.

This emphasizes the importance of sound-checks when available, and using good headphones. I know that, in a venue like that, there's lots of loud, extraneous noise... but do everything you can before rolling tape to ensure that you have the audio you need.
 
Thanks again. Unfortunately it wasn't a 'paid' gig, so I wasn't able to get a sound check. Sounds stupid I know, but the band arrived from London an hour before they played so the sound guy didn't have time for me.

I did get to shoot a world famous designer and band so it wasn't a total loss. Day 1 was great, lots of good footage. I can always dub some audio from their CD so it's not a total loss.
 
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