first of all, i would like to thank everyone especially TY who spent time on the phone teaching me about the 302 more than the manual. second, i finally got it, but one problem, i dont know how it worked!
it just basically worked, mysteriously, i did nothing different
the mic came into the mixer at mic level and 48phantom, the pots are at tweleve oclock and used the trim function to get a good read out. 0db on the mixer and -20 tone on the camera, LINE level into the camera, and finally, i did a test recording, and its beautiful. for some weird, out of this world, unexplained reason, i had the pots all the way up and was barely getting level over -20. I’m weirded out, but its working fine now.
thanks again TY