Chris F
New member
Hi all,
I've been making instructional double bass videos for about a year and a half now, and due to a change in camera, I'll now need a new audio setup. Previously, I would take a stereo signal from an audio technica 2022 (x/y condenser with built in phantom via a battery) and plug directly into the camera, then run a lavalier mic into an edirol R-09 and sync that audio with the video in Final Cut. Now the new camera doesn't have a stereo in, so I thought the solution would be a small inexpensive mixer to take the L/R from the instrument mic and mix it with the lavalier, then run it to the R-09 to be synced later.
So far, so good. But most of the little tiny mixers I find out there have one mic input and 4 line level inputs, and something tells me that the line level inputs won't work for the signal from the stereo mic. Is this correct? If so, are there any workable small mixers that will mix 3 or 4 mic level signals down to a single stereo feed? The ones I see that seem to do this advertise as 8 channel mixers or the like, which seems like overkill for what I'm trying to do. Any and all help appreciated.
I've been making instructional double bass videos for about a year and a half now, and due to a change in camera, I'll now need a new audio setup. Previously, I would take a stereo signal from an audio technica 2022 (x/y condenser with built in phantom via a battery) and plug directly into the camera, then run a lavalier mic into an edirol R-09 and sync that audio with the video in Final Cut. Now the new camera doesn't have a stereo in, so I thought the solution would be a small inexpensive mixer to take the L/R from the instrument mic and mix it with the lavalier, then run it to the R-09 to be synced later.
So far, so good. But most of the little tiny mixers I find out there have one mic input and 4 line level inputs, and something tells me that the line level inputs won't work for the signal from the stereo mic. Is this correct? If so, are there any workable small mixers that will mix 3 or 4 mic level signals down to a single stereo feed? The ones I see that seem to do this advertise as 8 channel mixers or the like, which seems like overkill for what I'm trying to do. Any and all help appreciated.