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io HD noob
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Yes. Audio inputs are available on the XLRs or via AES (digital).
I highly recommend a mixer.
Jeremy
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Actually, we have a Duet by Apogee that I might try to use for this function.
Scott
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[Scott Phillips] “Actually, we have a Duet by Apogee that I might try to use for this function.”
I wouldn’t recommend it as the ioHD needs to be only firewire device on the machine. A simple audio mixer that takes mic in and sends line out will suffice.
Jeremy
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Hi again. I have a little 4 channel mixer now and when I hook up headphones to the mixer, the audio sounds as it should.
But, the audio being captured by Final Cut is barely audible–even with the mixer all the way to “11” and the gain in FCP cranked up.
Does it mean I need an amplifier also? I’m surprised that I would need one in addition to the Io HD and the cheap mixer. Perhaps in my haste to get the mixer, I should’ve looked into something with additional power.
scottiep
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[Scott Phillips] “But, the audio being captured by Final Cut is barely audible–even with the mixer all the way to “11” and the gain in FCP cranked up.
Does it mean I need an amplifier also?”
No. Please explain your signal path. You have analog audio input selected in the ioHD control panel?
Jeremy
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Well, I have the mic connected to the mixer via XLR, then another XLR goes out of the mixer to the Io HD. And, again when I connect headphones to the mixer to “monitor,” it appears to be fine. But somewhere after the mixer, the signal breaks down and when watching the audio meter in the log and capture window, the meter responds, but doesn’t get very loud–its peak never reaches yellow or red.
And the meter in the front of the Io HD also doesn’t get very high (loud). The Io HD control panel on the Mac is set for analog audio input. I tried a different XLR cable just to troubleshoot, but it had the same result. I also tried a different Mac with FCP and had the same result there too.
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[Scott Phillips] “And the meter in the front of the Io HD also doesn’t get very high (loud). The Io HD control panel on the Mac is set for analog audio input. I tried a different XLR cable just to troubleshoot, but it had the same result. I also tried a different Mac with FCP and had the same result there too.”
Have you tried turning the master up on the mixer? You aren’t sending enough signal to the ioHD.
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Yes, it definitely seems as though there isn’t enough signal making it to the Io HD. But, I do have the mixer maxed out–I can hear a lot of hiss and ambient noise with it cranked up, but very quiet when monitoring with FCP.
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[Scott Phillips] “Yes, it definitely seems as though there isn’t enough signal making it to the Io HD. But, I do have the mixer maxed out–I can hear a lot of hiss and ambient noise with it cranked up, but very quiet when monitoring with FCP.”
Seems to me you have a mismatch of settings somewhere. Does your mic need phantom power and are you sending line level out of your mixer? Have you attenuated the channel with your mic?
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