if you've discovered the benefits of using or zoom handy recorder as an audio
interface for your DSLR you'll know that there are so many ways to set it up if
you'd like to learn more about setting up the audio mixer called monitor mixer
inside the h5 so you can route all these microphones to your camera or just
selected ones, then stick around and you will find out.
The monitor mixer inside the h5 allows you to choose which channels you want to run to your camera
unlike the standard stereo file mode you have the option of being able to liven
up all of the microphone inputs and record them to separate tracks on the
recorder in the multi file format and in the monitor mixer you can choose which
of those microphone channels you want to route to your camera so in this example
I'll show you how to record all of the inputs the three inputs but I'll only
route the two microphones the two professional microphones to the DSLR
camera and the stereo microphones will be recorded to a separate stereo file as
a redundancy track.
go into the menu- go into record mode we've got real chord
modes stereo file at the moment select multi file- we go down and select
in/out then we select a monitor mixer and once we have it in monitor mixer you
can see on the left hand side or firstly at the top you can see it says mixer off
we need to activate the mixer because we want to select what goes out of the line
output so to switch that on we press the record button now this won't start a
recording because in this mode all it simply does is turn it on so I'll just
show you that again now it's off now it's on so with it on on the left hand
side you'll observe that there's a little indicator and basically what that
is is a little volume controlled called a
pan control and just underneath it you've got a fader like a slide fader on
a mixer if you press that it will open up the left/right channel so I'm going
to select that and you can see tracks left right that's indicating these two
microphones on the top it's set up so that it's in the center so it's not
faded to one side or the other but you'll notice I've turned down this to
mute now all that means is that I've muted what goes out the monitor lead it
will still record those tracks on the SD card that's the beauty of it and just
going to the next step now we go back I drag down the live
indicator to number one which now is this microphone input I select that you
can see on the left hand side I've got the pan control turned completely to
the left and then if I go back drag it down to number two select number two you
can see the pan is still in the middle but what I want to be able to do is to
send one microphone to the left side of the camera and number two microphone to
the right side of the camera so that then it gives me the ability to be able
to manipulate it later on now you might want to put them both to the center and
have them both go to both channels on the camera that's totally up to you I'm
going to select this one and that probably should have been on center but
I'm going to turn this pan right around to the right-hand side and when it
reaches a hundred percent that's as far as to the right as it possibly can now
let's set up the microphone so that we can test it the levels right so we'll
switch on inputs one and two and we'll test those test one two three four
testing one two three four now you can see this number two
microphone which is the right-hand one is going up above -12 I'd really like to
get that down so I turned the volume down so it reaches about there it is
about -12 there now I'll check the left-hand microphone test one two three
four test one two three four test one two three four and your goal is to set
it around -12 let's liven up these top two microphones as well so i've liven up
the two top microphones and you'll notice straight away that they're not
indicating on here so that's not a problem we'll go back to the main ones
there we have it right so not only to see two XLR microphones show up now but
now we're out of the mixer you can see that definitely the h5 sees these
microphones as recording so once we've got that set up we can do a test
recording the way we do that to grab one of the microphones press the record
button and it will start recording a file we have a listen to it and then see
see that it's nice and clean now the match between the microphones and the
zoom recorder is sweet we've connected the line out or monitor out to our
camera and we've selected in the monitor mix for the left microphone to go into
the left channel and the number two or right-hand microphone in this case to go
to the right hand side of the stereo tracks on the camera we can go in and
check to see the level that the camera is actually receiving it at we go into
sound recording and then select the record level and look I haven't even got
the microphones up to my mouth and you can see that it's over driving it's got
that red indicator at the end so I'll have the microphone at the same distance
as I set it up before and I start talking and I'm going to have to just go
in and drop that level down so as I speak you
can see me dropping the level right down and this is the big advantage in using a
preamp you can turn the cameras sensitivity right down and you'll notice
that I've just about two got that on zero so I think that's it yep that's
zero so one step up and I'm reaching the goal layer of -12 DB and it's it seems
to be very happy the monitor mixer function on the h5 recorder is a really
handy tool look if you'd like to find out more information about the gear that
I've used in the video then please have a look in the description below and look
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