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    Can I mix 2 Lavs on Canon XA10?

    Posted by Steve Maraschiello on March 13, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    Hey All,

    First timer here…

    I have 2 sony XLR lavs (UWP D-11) and when I connect both to the XLR ports I get Channel 1 on Left and Channel 2 on Right (or something like that). Is it possible to get both channels to mix? I’ll be shooting a 1-on-1interview, each will be wearing a lav. Please help!

    Thanks,
    Steve

    Steve Maraschiello replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Richard Crowley

    March 13, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    No you cannot do that.
    Because nobody really wants to do that
    Because it is typically “mixed” during post-production editing.

    If you want to mix the two microphones together in real-time during shooting, then you will need a mixer. Note, however that is exactly what most of us try to AVOID doing. Because mixing live in real-time is something best left to an experienced audio person. And something tells me you don’t have a dedicated sound person.

  • Steve Maraschiello

    March 13, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks, Richard. The issue I figured out is that I was playing the video clips in Premiere in the preview window and was hearing the left and right separately. I realized that once I exported the video it all became stereo. Hours of research and banging my head with such a simple solution…

    Thanks again!

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