how to hook up boom mic to my camera
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Assuming that your shotgun has an XLR connector, simply connect the mic to one of the XLR inputs on your 100a using an XLR cable (XLR male>XLR female). You'll also need to make sure you know how the mic is powered. If it can run on phantom power, use phantom power (the camera can supply this).
However, a shotgun isn't going to yield terribly good results for indoor shooting. For that, a hypercardioid condenser will be your best place to start.
Also, please remember to wear headphones at all times during production... if you hear a problem, that's the time to fix it. If you don't listen as you record, you're bound to find unpleasant surprises in post.
And since you're starting out, you might want to invest in this DVD. It will give you a ton of good information on audio.
Assuming that your shotgun has an XLR connector, simply connect the mic to one of the XLR inputs on your 100a using an XLR cable (XLR male>XLR female). You'll also need to make sure you know how the mic is powered. If it can run on phantom power, use phantom power (the camera can supply this).
However, a shotgun isn't going to yield terribly good results for indoor shooting. For that, a hypercardioid condenser will be your best place to start.
Also, please remember to wear headphones at all times during production... if you hear a problem, that's the time to fix it. If you don't listen as you record, you're bound to find unpleasant surprises in post.
And since you're starting out, you might want to invest in this DVD. It will give you a ton of good information on audio.
Steve House
Veteran
Assuming you're using a mic with XLR connections, that it's a mic that requires phantom power, and you're not feeding it through a field mixer ...
Plug the cable from the mic into XLR Input 2 on the camera.
Set the Input 2 Input switch to MIC
Set the Input 2 48v switch to ON
Set the CH1 Select switch to Input 2
Set the CH2 Select switch to Input 2
Set the recording level on CH1 so the meter hovers around -12dB on the meters.
Set the recording level on CH2 to read about 6dB below that of CH1 on the meters.
Plug GOOD headphones - earbuds won't cut it - into the headphone jack as and set the volume to a comfortable level. Listen for quality, but look at the meters to judge levels.
This puts the mic inputs in dual-mono mode recording to both channels in the camera. Channel 1 has the signal at the level that will probably be used, channel 2 has a duplicate at a lower level so if there's is an unexpected loud sound that distorts on channel 1, you have channel 2 as a backup to substitute in post.
Plug the cable from the mic into XLR Input 2 on the camera.
Set the Input 2 Input switch to MIC
Set the Input 2 48v switch to ON
Set the CH1 Select switch to Input 2
Set the CH2 Select switch to Input 2
Set the recording level on CH1 so the meter hovers around -12dB on the meters.
Set the recording level on CH2 to read about 6dB below that of CH1 on the meters.
Plug GOOD headphones - earbuds won't cut it - into the headphone jack as and set the volume to a comfortable level. Listen for quality, but look at the meters to judge levels.
This puts the mic inputs in dual-mono mode recording to both channels in the camera. Channel 1 has the signal at the level that will probably be used, channel 2 has a duplicate at a lower level so if there's is an unexpected loud sound that distorts on channel 1, you have channel 2 as a backup to substitute in post.
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thank you soooo much, my pastor has the boom mic , and its an 800.00 mic, but I wanted to be sure I was hooking everything up right. so your saying I can use the power from the camera (phantom power I think its 48 volt) and I dont need a mixer for this type of mic, because he has one of those to. Which would be better to use the mixer or not???
JordanBlock
Well-known member
You don't absolutely need the mixer, but it can give you a lot more flexibility depending on how you're shooting. It may also have better pre-amps than the camera. Any idea what model the mixer is?
Steve House
Veteran
As Jordan asked, can you be more specific as to exactly what mic the "$800" mic is and what make and model the mixer is that you might use? Mixers can be advantageous in that they can give you better preamps and more control over the sound than you get with the camera alone. But there's a price in that you need someone to actually operate the mixer during the take, someone who knows what they're doing, in order to actually gain much of its potential advantages. They're not a set-and-forget piece of gear.