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Do you have a headphone jack on the camera? Did you monitor the sound during the recording and did it sound bad? |
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Did you have the audio on manual or automatic? |
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You might also try looking at an XLR adapter. There is one from Canon, but a better variety (and quality) with the BeachTek adapters. |
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DI or not (depending on the need for impedance matching), you still need an unbalanced signal split to your stereo inputs to avoid an out-of-phase signal. It may sound fine through headphones since the elements are isolated, but as soon as you run it through speakers stereo or mono, you will hear the phase cancellation. |
Ira White wrote on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:25 |
If it is a balanced TRS aux output, the problem you should experience is left and right camera feed out of phase. A balanced signal sends one phase down the hot wire (tip) and another down the neutral (ring). Splitting to stereo gives you incompatible left/right, not normal stereo or mono operation. Using a mono-1/4" to split RCAs would eliminate that problem. |
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The output of the console is -10dB unbalanced (1/4" phone) and the camcorder (mini-phone TS) is looking for around -50dB unbalanced. The disparity between the -10dB console output and the -50dB camcorder sensitivity resulted in overdriving and distortion. |