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MP3 player
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Forgot to mention that, yes, you generally want to use line level feeds from your mixer to the camera. But if you are in a bind and have to switch to mic level for the sake of the transcription feed, you’ll be OK. Just remember to monitor the audio carefully at the camera. If you keep the feed line level then you’ll need a line to mic adapter, but that will likely include yet more adapters to go from 1/8″ to XLR (most line to mic adapters are XLR), then from XLR to whatever connector you have on the Y cable. It gets a bit complicated…
Freelance Sound Technician/Mixer
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Ok thanks again for all your help… is this becoming an expecting thing these days.. are there people who just say no cant do it?
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I only get transcription requests a few times a year.
Freelance Sound Technician/Mixer
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Yes it can be done, at least it can certainly be fed to a Sony MD Walkman as two mono tracks. I made up a splitter cable feeding camera audio out and TC out to a stereo mini jack that sent the two feeds separately to each MD track. Doubtless this could be achieved to MP3 with the right impedance.
It’s a while since I used it but as far as I can remember the TC signal was over strong and needed to be reduced to avoid bleeding. Otherwise all that was needed was to remember to record it to the MD as well as shoot to tape! With a TC reader It was very useful for translation transcripts.
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