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Camcorder and microphone question?
I just bought a canon FS200. I need to shoot videos with sound, so therefore I am wanting to get a simple wireless lapel microphone system. Does anyone have any recommendations on the kind that would be compatable with my camcorder.
Also how does the receiver work for the wireless mic. I want one that just plugs into the mic jack on the side of my camcorder. Do they all do that???
Thanks for any answers.
my budget is rather small but I can spend alittle if it works good. So ur saying I should for sure get something to have 2 channels. Will the one channel sound bad or just not as good?
A "lavaliere" wireless system has a mic element connected with a wire to a battery powered body pack. The body pack communicates wirelessly to a base station which can be AC or battery powered. The base station plugs in to the camcorder.
Because the 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo jack is used in the camcorder, it is likely the audio from a single mono mic will be recorded to only one channel.
There are a few ways to get around this...
1) Use a cable that splits the left and right channels and two mics instead of 1. The FS200 has no audio gain control, so the volume from the different mics cannot be controlled. But the audio will be on both channels.
2) Use an XLR adapter - like those from juicedLink or BeachTek. Plug the mic into the XLR adapter, plug the XLR adapter into the FS200's mic jack. The XLR adapter has manual audio gain control knobs. They also have a Stereo/Mono switch to take a single feed and send it to both left and right channels.
3) Use a "field recorder" like those from Zoom, Edirol, M-Audio and MANY others. Connect the mic to the field recorder, connect the field recorder to FS200's mic jack.
4) Don't use a Lav - but use a stereo mic.
5) Extract the audio from the video editor, use an audio editing tool like Audacity to pan or clone the one track and get it to the other audio track; import the "fixed" audio to the video, sync, mute the audio from the imported audio.
What is your budget? Sennheiser and Audio Technica make good wireless lavs. UHF and full diversity are STRONGLY recommended. I can't recommend Samson or Nady.
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