Hiss betwee=n mics, mixer and camera

[Jordan Wolf]

Steve,

It sounds to me like there is a gain staging problem. Put in layman’s terms: something is turned up too much or not enough.

You’ve gotten good advice, but if you’re stuck with your current setup, I have some tips:

1. Set the gain on the mixer appropriately. For your mixer, do this by having the source make noise (talk, play instrument, etc.) and turn the Gain knob until the Zero light starts blinking.

2. Set the levels on the camera appropriately. For the Panasonic, you’ll want to set the levels so that the meters never “clip” and, on average, remain around “-18” to “-20”. The numbers represent how much headroom, in dB, you have left until nasty noises occur.

Wolf
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