[The1ktone]

[Thax] “If this is MONO audio, you could adjust the camcorder’s inputs to record channel one’s reference at -12 and channel two’s at, say, -18… that way you’re covered at either end.”

thks alot for this piece of advise, I’ve seen it done b4 for a single interviewee. Will definitely bear this in mind. However, the nxt job I’ll be doing involves an interviewer and 2 interviewees.

[Thax] “-12 to -14 is a good level for your tone.”

okay so does this mean that I should ignore the -20dB mark on the Sony Beta SP camera that I’ll be using, and use something around -12 to -14 instead? I’m just wondering why they highlighted -20dB as the mark there for the camera instead. Is there any particular reasons?

Thanks alot for your help, Thax. I really appreciate it.

[The1ktone]

Thanks for the reply. & Sorry I didnt make myself clear enough, Thax. What I mean to say is, there’s difference in metering headroom between the mini dv cameras and betacams, due to setting a different level of 1k tone for e.g. dvx100A & a Sony Beta SP camera at -20dB.

So what you are suggesting is I should set my 1k tone reference point to something between -12 and -6dB? would that cause distortion on the betacam SP even if my levels are safely outta the red on my mixer?

Thks