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  Newbie GL2 Audio Question

  Posted by Steve Wilson on April 17, 2006 at 8:34 pm

  I have a newbie audio question…

  I have been filming studio interviews using my GL2 and an Audio Technica lavalier mic connected to a MA-300 adapter on the cam through XLR. I have manually bumped my audio levels to almost max on the GL2. When I import the video/audio into FCP (left channel only) through an AJA Io box, my audio is very low (-30 Db in FCP).

  Am I doing something wrong? Or is the audio always that low?

  Don Greening replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Don Greening

  April 18, 2006 at 1:07 am

  Make sure your GL2 doesn’t have the MIC ATT setting activated. This would pad the incoming lav signal too much. The MIC ATT setting is turned on/off in the GL2’s on-screen menus.

  Remember too, that the MA-300 doesn’t provide phantom power, so any mic, lav or otherwise needs to have its own power supply.

  – Don

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