[Steve Culpepper]

Thank you all!

[Steve Culpepper]

HDX900

[Steve Culpepper]

Excuse my ignorance but I’m out of my comfort zone here so I appreciate your help and patience.

You see from the pic I uploaded of the cable coming off the mic that I only have blue, white and shield. Do I split the blue to the two different pins and the white to the two different pins?

[Steve Culpepper]

Several different ops and different mixers. SD 442, PCM, etc..

[Steve Culpepper]

Thanks for the info fellas! I’m certainly no audio expert so the advice helps. Here’s what we’ve come up with on the issue.

If the field guy sends his tone down the line and calibrates the it to -20dB, we get a clean signal here however we’re having to add a lot of gain to get it to a reasonable level. The DVCPRO camera and all DVCPRO decks clearly indicate (with the tone marker)-20dB as the level for tone.

If the field guy sends his tone down the line and calibrates it to -12dB, we get a clean signal that is much more in line with the audio levels we’d like to see and we still might add a touch of gain here and there. I totally understand that the field guy’s job is to capture what’s happening in a world where nobody knows what will happen next and he/she needs to be a bit conservative. With that said, we’ve had pushback from the field guys when asking them to set tone at -12dB

I personally have set a mixer and cam up to test and have had no trouble setting tone to -12dB and screaming as loud as possible into a mic. If I scream bloody murder I can make it clip but the HDX900 seems to handle this just fine.

I’m hoping to be able to better explain the issue at hand to any field guys so that we can all be on the same page. I would have thought, “me client, you getting paid” would have been enough but it looks like I’m going to have to learn some techno babble on this one.

Thanks agian guys!

[Steve Culpepper]

Thank you fellas!

[Steve Culpepper]

We’ve got 4 of these cameras and have had the same issues. Send it in to Sony.

[Steve Culpepper]

JVC = Junk Video Cameras

[Steve Culpepper]

Litepanel Micro or Micro pro. These are both on the top side of your budget but you’ll be happy with the choice.

[Steve Culpepper]

Thanks fellas!