Hello there again, I'm shooting a live performance tomorrow that involves a lot of sound coming from a couple of musicians on stage, mostly electronic sounds and a dancer who's also producing live noise... question: I'm planning to use an omni hanging from the ceiling on one input (for live-ambient sound) and a and xlr cable straight to the musician's table through the other input (is this making sense?)... I have a DVX100b... what's the procedure? which are the settings on camera to get each input on different tracks?... I don't have a mixer for myself at the moment so I have to do with what I got, I'm not expecting the ultimate sond quality results either... any help will be much appreciated... all da best.
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MattinSTL
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If the board feed is good then you'll probably get better sound from that then you would from your own mic setup... that's a big if.
Check the board feed and see if it is mic or line... it will say someplace close to the jack that you plug that xlr into... if for some reason it doesn't then ask... if they don't know then I'd bet it will be line out... but no guarantees. Now look at your cam... see how each xlr input has a mic and line selection? Choose the same one that you got from the board.
Next open your LCD... the two input selector switches towards the front need to be on input 1 and input 2... not both on 2 and neither selecting the built-in mics... now the two switches behind that are for supplying phantom to the xlr jacks on the cam, and on to the mic... leave the input that is coming from the board off (no phantom) and if the omni needs it (and it probably does... what mic?) then have that one on.
Set your levels so that peaks hit about 3 reds on the LCD... and I would put the ALC setting (in the menus) to ON and forget it forever... leave that ON. Make sure your mic gain settings are at -50db and not -60... and I would only record audio to the cam at 16bit... all those settings are close together in the menu.
After that do a soundcheck and don't forget to adjust levels once things get moving... if you're moving around with this cam (handheld) then I often will use a small piece of gaffer's tape to hold the levels on the dials.
No worries.
Check the board feed and see if it is mic or line... it will say someplace close to the jack that you plug that xlr into... if for some reason it doesn't then ask... if they don't know then I'd bet it will be line out... but no guarantees. Now look at your cam... see how each xlr input has a mic and line selection? Choose the same one that you got from the board.
Next open your LCD... the two input selector switches towards the front need to be on input 1 and input 2... not both on 2 and neither selecting the built-in mics... now the two switches behind that are for supplying phantom to the xlr jacks on the cam, and on to the mic... leave the input that is coming from the board off (no phantom) and if the omni needs it (and it probably does... what mic?) then have that one on.
Set your levels so that peaks hit about 3 reds on the LCD... and I would put the ALC setting (in the menus) to ON and forget it forever... leave that ON. Make sure your mic gain settings are at -50db and not -60... and I would only record audio to the cam at 16bit... all those settings are close together in the menu.
After that do a soundcheck and don't forget to adjust levels once things get moving... if you're moving around with this cam (handheld) then I often will use a small piece of gaffer's tape to hold the levels on the dials.
No worries.