Over Modulated Audio

Chris Borjis
March 17, 2008 at 4:26 pm

What did it sound like with headphones on during the shoot?

Not monitoring with headphones is very dangerous.
Jared Kirshenbaum
March 17, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Sounded fine through the headphones…

I just noticed that the wireless mic was set to -20db and the camera was set to 0db….Could this be the impediance probleM??

Thanks
Jared Kirshenabum
Eric Susch
March 17, 2008 at 5:08 pm

You were probably clipping the circuits in the radio receiver. When you are using a radio mic you need to check levels at the transmitter, the receiver, and the camera. All three have to be correct. You still should have heard the problem in the headphones though.

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Ernie Santella
March 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Question, when you play back one the tape in the camera, does it still sound fine with your headsets? If so, then the tape is OK, but you have some other issue in the digitizing process.
Andrew Commiskey
March 17, 2008 at 11:08 pm

Did the Z1U have the automatic gain control on. this would keep the levels from peaking while the signal was greatly over-modulated from the level mismatch. Mic level is around -40 if the receiver was at -20 it was still mismatched enough to clip the signal but not enough to be extremely obvious in the field without an audio tech.
Drew

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