Response to XL-1 and pro. audio

I would spend the $150 - $200 on a beachtek XLR adapter. Then spend some more money buying a shotgun mic and fishpole, or renting. This is the set up that I have and it works just like a real film shoot. Audio goes from the mic, to a headphone amp on the boom operator, then to a Mackie mixer where a "sound recordist" monitors and adjusts the audio levels, and then into the beachteck mixer and into the camera. If you need to, you can bypass the headphone amp and the mixer. If you do not have someone monitoring the audio levels you will most likely get low levels. the sound recordist is the most inportant audio guy on a film shoot. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE ONE! With DV he monitors an audio mixer instead of the usual Nagra sound recorder.

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