Greg Smith
Veteran
Whoa ... what's that adapter thingy on the output of the mixer doing?
It looks like a combiner for two mono jacks to drive one pair of headphones, NOT something you'd find in a balanced line level audio application. Since it's only feeding one input channel on the camera anyway, you won't achieve any kind of stereo effect by using it. And the outputs of the Behringer are already balanced lines using all three conductors (tip, ring, sleeve), so my guess is that you're shorting them down to unbalanced by using this rig. (Since it's plugged together already, I can't see whether the red and black phone plugs are two- or three-conductor types, but I'm guessing two from the labels and general context.)
Don't use two outputs (on the mixer) to drive one input (on the camcorder). You should be able to lose that Y-adapter altogether and just plug the three-conductor phone plug from the camera cable directly into the mixer output jack (left or right, your choice). Your camera should be set for a line level input.
Also, turn down the "FX" send knob on the microphone channel of the mixer, all the way. (Actually, turn them all down unless you specifically want to add some reverb to a channel.)
This doesn't even touch on the issue of setting all the levels and gains properly throughout this system. From beginning to end, you need to be concerned about:
1) Microphone sensitivity on the wireless transmitter
2) Output level of the wireless receiver (should be low -- mic level -- for this setup as configured)
3) Input trim (small black knob under the two jacks) on the mixer
4) Mixer channel pot
5) Mixer master pot
6) Camera input switch (mic or line, should be line)
7) Camera audio pot
It doesn't look like your mixer has a built-in test tone generator, which would be useful for setting at least the last couple of stages of this. It's not impossible to work without that tool, but it does make things a little less precise.
But I'd address that mixer-to-camera wiring first. Just looks suspicious.
- Greg
It looks like a combiner for two mono jacks to drive one pair of headphones, NOT something you'd find in a balanced line level audio application. Since it's only feeding one input channel on the camera anyway, you won't achieve any kind of stereo effect by using it. And the outputs of the Behringer are already balanced lines using all three conductors (tip, ring, sleeve), so my guess is that you're shorting them down to unbalanced by using this rig. (Since it's plugged together already, I can't see whether the red and black phone plugs are two- or three-conductor types, but I'm guessing two from the labels and general context.)
Don't use two outputs (on the mixer) to drive one input (on the camcorder). You should be able to lose that Y-adapter altogether and just plug the three-conductor phone plug from the camera cable directly into the mixer output jack (left or right, your choice). Your camera should be set for a line level input.
Also, turn down the "FX" send knob on the microphone channel of the mixer, all the way. (Actually, turn them all down unless you specifically want to add some reverb to a channel.)
This doesn't even touch on the issue of setting all the levels and gains properly throughout this system. From beginning to end, you need to be concerned about:
1) Microphone sensitivity on the wireless transmitter
2) Output level of the wireless receiver (should be low -- mic level -- for this setup as configured)
3) Input trim (small black knob under the two jacks) on the mixer
4) Mixer channel pot
5) Mixer master pot
6) Camera input switch (mic or line, should be line)
7) Camera audio pot
It doesn't look like your mixer has a built-in test tone generator, which would be useful for setting at least the last couple of stages of this. It's not impossible to work without that tool, but it does make things a little less precise.
But I'd address that mixer-to-camera wiring first. Just looks suspicious.
- Greg
