[Ty Ford]

Hello Fritz and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

What’s the application?
What are the speakers?
What are the dimensions of the room?
Will they be wall mounted, ceiling nounted, stand mounted?
What else is in the room?
What do they want to do with this system?
Why do they want to do this?

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Ty

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Maxim and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Something like this?

https://www.motu.com/products/midi/pokxprss/body.html/view?searchterm=smpte%20midi

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[Ty Ford]

Hi Greg,

You’re welcome. If you want to have a finished audio track then that’s what you mix. If you intend to do any post work, which is frequently the case, then you try to isolate tracks as much as possible to different tracks.

This becomes problematic if you have more than two sources.

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I would suggest you get the cable I told you about three posts ago on this string.

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[Ty Ford]

You’ll probably end up with both sets on the same frequency after reset. That frequency may work for one set. Turn on one transmitter and one receiver to confirm the pair works. You’ll have to find another frequency for the 2nd set.

Leave the first transmitter on. Turn on the other receiver. Navigate to the Scan feature. Hit SET, then HIt START. When it finds a frequency, it the set button again. Then navigate back to EXIT and hit the SET button again. Observe the frequency. Turn on the second transmitter. Navigate to TUNE. Hit SET. Use the toggle button to set the transmitter to the same frequency as the receiver you just scanned with.

That’s in the manual. Assuming you have lost it. Here.
https://www.doit.wisc.edu/digital_media_center/images/EFLmanuals/sennheiser_ew100_G2.pdf

Where’s your sound person?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Greg and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

How do you use a field mixer?

Most simply, you plug mics or other sound sources into it, you plug it into the camera.

Why? See the below.

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Ty Ford

Mixers are more than knobs that let you vary the volume.

1. They let you vary volumes without shaking the camera or getting in the way of the camera op.
2. You may need to do that a lot with some people. I ride gain even if one person is talking if their voice fades on the end of each line. You can only do this in a relatively quiet environment, otherwise you bring up the ambient noise.
3. Mixer preamps (good ones) sound better than camera preamps.
4. Good mixers have input transformers that scrape off RF before it get into your audio.
5. Good mixers have limiters that allow you to record hotter, keeping your audio further above the noise floor without distorting.
6. Good limtiers have EQ that lets you roll of LF HVAC noise before it gets into your audio.
7. Good mixers have mulitple outputs so you can feed more than one camera, or separate recorder simultaneously.
8. Good mixers make your sound better. If they didn’t pros wouldn’t use them.

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[Ty Ford]

Hi Jack,

The issue is getting the 2-pin to both the tip and ring of the 1/8″ trs plug. Adapters can be wevy twicky.
::Elmer Fudd reference::

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[Ty Ford]

Jack,

They are $99 USD. Don’t look, just buy. These are industry standard. They are because they are sturdy and tell you what you need to know about the audio coming in to your camera.

The XLR to 1/8″ cable you have is probably not wired for stereo. You need one in which the #2 pin from the XLR connects to both the tip and ring of the 1/8″ plug. Some cameras put a low voltage on the jack to power certain mics. This voltage may be useful, or may cause noise or distortion.

There are cables built with a blocking capacitor that keep the voltage from causing problems. here’s one.
https://www.trewaudio.com/store/product.php?productid=146&cat=21&page=1

Yes, it costs $50. You can try adapters but they are usually too funky mechanically to be reliable.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Anna and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Knowing the current status of your transmitter and receiver would be helpful.

It’s difficult to know how to fix something when I don’t know how it’s broken.

The transmitter and receiver menus are fairly easy to navigate. Open the face, hit the On/Off button to turn the transmitter or receiver on. Hit the SET button to bring up the menus. Use the two-way toggle button on the face of the unit to scroll to the setting you need to adjust.

Unless you can figure out what got changed, I suggest you toggle the button to RESET and hit the SET button. Toggle from NO to OK. Hit the SET button. The screen will turn blank for a few seconds and then come back on showing the main panel. You may have to adjust the transmit and receive frequencies, but you’ll be starting with a clean slate.

Future adjustments are made the same way. Use the SET button to get you into the menus. Use the toggle button to get to the right choice. Use The SET button to confirm the choice. Then toggle to EXIT to get home.

If you SKYPE, I’m tyford. I will be near the computer for a while this afternoon and will leave skype on.

Um, in addition, please find andread the manual.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jack and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

First, if you can’t hear it in the headphones when they are plugged into the camera, you need better headphones. Buy Sony MDR7506 headphones at your earliest convenience.

Second, you don’t provide any information as to the wiring of the 1’8″ TRS plug or the input of your camera. Most cameras have stereo input jacks. Unless your XLR to 1/8″ cable is wired properly, it will cause a buzz.

Third, dynamic mics are of low sensitivity. The require more gain than most condenser mics. That gain also brings up noise. That could also be the source of your buzz.

As you continue on your path and start doing projects professionally, you will learn that you can’t afford to buy cheap.

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