[Richard Crowley]

Please clarify your question. You want to connect the TRANSMITTER to a recorder and a speaker? So you are trying to play back something on the recorder and then put it out through the speaker and transmit it somewhere else? Now, if you said that you wanted to connect the RECEIVER to a speaker and a recorder, that would be much easier to understand.

Also specify exactly which “speaker” you are asking about. Many powered speakers (assuming that is what you are asking about?) have extra outputs which could accommodate recording, linking to other speakers, etc.

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

Without knowing the application, we don’t really know how you are using the system.

Of course the mixer would be at the beginning of the signal chain, an the powered speakers at the end of the chain. Between the mixer and the speakers would certainly be the appropriate place for the feedback destroyer.

However, the proper location for the compressor/limiter/gate may be more appropriate in the input channel rather than at the mixer output. It depends on the application (what are the inputs, what is the location, how is it used, etc.)

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

Are you saying that it appears to be broken? Has it worked in that mode before?
Were you trying to record from the built-in microphones?
From a wired input from an external microphone?
From a feed from a press box or from the venue system?
Can you refine and expand your question so that we can understand the situation?

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

[Benjamin Stafford] “The site is located next to a freeway and there is a constant traffic from trucks coming in and out of the site.
What do you suggest that we do?”
1) Look for a more quiet location
2) Plan on spending 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars for sound mitigation.
3) Use it for a rehearsal/staging space only. Don’t plan on recording anything there.
4) Attempt a revival of silent movies.

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

Did you perform a noise survey of the neighborhood? All hours, all days? Hope it is a very quiet industrial area. Else it might be cheaper to look elsewhere vs. the cost of blocking noise incursion.

There are two major branches of sound treatment here.

1) Sound reduction coming from the outside. This simply requires mass. Lead sheets, double walls, masonry, or the mass of air between your studio and a distant noise source.

2) Internal sound mitigagion (primarily absorbing and/or breaking up internal reflections).

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

Practically everything made by Sound Devices would meet your requirements. Of course, if you want professional features and performance, be prepared for a professional price tag on it.

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

I am not a Mac/FC user, so I don’t know how it is done in your world. But in other video editing software, you can split apart the two “stereo” channels into separate audio tracks so that you can mix them together independently.

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

Recording “stereo” or “mono” is a function of the microphone and has nothing to do with the recorder. You are correct that recording dialog in stereo is typically a bad idea. But using one lav mic on each of two subjects is not “stereo”. And recording the two mics to the “left” and “right” channels of a “stereo” recording is not “stereo”. We take two tracks and arbitrarily call them “left” and “right” for people who are recording in stereo. But it is the placement of the microphones that makes “stereo”, it is not the arrangement of the tracks on the recorder.

Feel free to record one of your wireless lavs on the first track (which would be “left” if you were recording stereo”), and the other wireless lav on the second track (which would be “right” if you were recording stereo). That does NOT create “stereo” and it has no effect on picking up background noise.

With one wireless lav in each channel, you will hear one in your left ear and one in your right ear. IMHO, that is the ideal way to monitor as it allows you to hear what is happening in each channel independently. So if there is some noise or whatever, you will instantly hear which microphone has the problem. If you mix the channels together for monitoring you lose the ability to identify where a problem might be happening.

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

It is not clear what you mean by “mono”? A “stereo” recording is just two “mono” recordings bundled together. What can you do with “two mono” recordings that you can’t do with the two recordings that are bundled together and called “stereo”? Perhaps if you could describe why “stereo” doesn’t work for you?

I (and likely most of us here) regularly record two separate microphones to the “left” and “right” channels of the recorder’s “stereo” audio track. But that is just a matter of semantics. If you call them “track 1” and “track 2” does that change anything?

Are you perhaps asking how to separate the “left” and “right” channels of the “stereo” recording so that you can handle them separately in post-production editing?

Or is this a question about monitoring?

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.

[Richard Crowley]

It seems extraordinarily unlikely that you will be able to record four separate audio tracks. It would require a mixer with four separate (or two independent stereo) outputs. And a rather high-end camcorder with four inputs.

But without any identification of the wireless mic systems, the mixer, or the camcorder nobody can provide a definitive answer to your question.

Typically, the mixer will take the four (or however many) inputs and mix them down to two tracks (“stereo”). And a typical camcorder will record two tracks (“stereo”).

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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.