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Response to XL1 and field mixers - how to calibrate?

from Dwayne Thornhill (thornhil@mars.ark.com)
Hi Leigh,

I just finished shooting with a Shure mixer and seemed to have a pretty good match. Instead of using an MA100 I took the 1/8" "Tape Out" from the mixer to the RCA inputs on the XL1. The mixer had 0 Tone which I set my camera to. All of the audio was dumped to Ch.1 on my camera. So far so good. I've noticed that the audio limiter on the XL1 is actually pretty good. I'm not a fan of any "auto" settings but whenever I'm recording footage with ambient audio I just set it to auto and have been happy with that. One thing that I have done when mixing is checking to see what the camera on "auto" wants for a 0 tone setting and going by that.

Hope this helps somewhat. Dwayne

(posted 8957 days ago)

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