Brian Reynolds
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Richard, but those ‘phantom power’ supplies on Amazon need a wall wart plug pack to power them…… Not very location friendly.
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This might help you,
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/403002-REG/Denecke_PS_1A_PS_1A_Portable_Single.htmlI have purchased some sets of Sony UWP-D-16 that have a plug on Tx unit that has phantom power, It makes corporate interviews a VERY quick easy set up with Sennheiser 416’s or 8060 on stands or booms…. And NO cables…. Love them
I also think Rode make a plug on Tx unit with phantom power in the 2.4g frequency band.
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Yep you’ve got it…. the Pad you ordered is fine.
And the reason for putting it into an XLR barrel is there is some electronic components in there, and they fit in nicely. tying to put them into an RCA or other sort of connector is quite difficult.Pads can be used in EITHER direction…… so there is no defined in or out
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Ok…. the output of the DJ mixer is LINE LEVEL and comes out either on an XLR or RCA connector.
This CAN be plugged into the input of a recorder / camera with a LINE LEVEL input (without the use of a pad or any sort of attenuation)If you want to feed the DJ signal into a recorder / camera that DOES NOT have a line level input and only has a Mic level input (like the H2n) then the incoming signal level needs to lowered (externally before going to the recorder / camera) this is called attenuating the signal and is done with an ‘Attenuation PAD’
If the incoming DJ signal level is all over the place and beyond your control then you will need to adjust the level at some time in the production….. either at the time of the recording either by using a recorder / camera with ‘AUTO LEVEL’ where the electronics in the recorder unit does the work for you…… or manually adjusted at the moment of recording by a human adjusting a knob up or down…. or record the DJ knowing that they will get louder and keeping this as your highest level and accepting the lower music / speech level and doing the adjust in post production.
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So why not get a feed fro the DJ either by cable or wireless feed it into your camera input and run your camera in ‘auto mode’ page 77 of the c100 manual…. The audio level will then be adjusted by your camera.
Drop the file into the video edit time line… presto all done. -
What sort of video camera are you using?
This is where ‘auto level’ on the video camera will save you hundreds of hours of work. -
Why not just adjust the volume curve / line in post prod, it has to be a LOT easier than doing a cross fade to another track then adjust that level to match…..
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Why not just record the signal and keep in mind the high levels and then in post production just raise the level on the quiet sections….. way simpler.
Most recorders that have 2 level recording (for safety) do it a a preset level. -
So are you prepared to run several cables to the DJ position?
A simpler way of doing things is take just 1 feed and ride the levels at the recorder…. and if the level is to hot use a ‘pad’ so you don’t get clipping on the LOUDEST sections.
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B&H claim to have attenuation pads that are switchable from many manufactures that are ‘in stock’
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/In-Line-Mic-Accessories/ci/14723/N/3991602297Attenuation cables is just a pad that is moulded into a specific cable connectors, a separate XLRM > XLRF is better as they can easily be used with other jobs……
So let me get this straight… you are now wanting a separate feed of the music ONLY and another separate feed of the DJ mic ONLY and what about any other speech microphones you will need a separate feed of those as well? And then mix them back together in post production.
Sounds like you are going to have to run a large multicore cable to the DJ position…. and can they give separate splits of the different components?