[videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Guys, Our first Sundance video is stalled from being released because of a critical issue that I don't know how to fix! I bought us a new mic to use on the road...it's a handheld Shure that uses an XLR input. I step that down to the 1/8" plug on the camera. The audio sounds beautiful "in the ca

Re: [videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-27 Thread Philip Clark
Hi Rhett -- Sounds like phase cancellation to me. Simply put, when the polarity is reversed on one channel of a stereo recording, and the recording is summed to mono, then the peaks of one waveform coincide with the valleys of the other waveform and they wind up cancelling each other out.

Re: [videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-27 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Philip, Thanks for the very clear treatment of this information. I didn't know so much about XLR phase inversion in the signal, but I had started to figure that the problem was due to the way things were getting combined, so I did a "Fill From Left" channel, and that had fixed it. Now I know the

Re: [videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-28 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Mr. Clark is absolutely correct. Jan On 1/27/07, Philip Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rhett -- > > Sounds like phase cancellation to me. Simply put, when the polarity > is reversed on one channel of a stereo recording, and the recording > is summed to mono, then the peaks of one wavefor

Re: [videoblogging] Audio too quiet when I use mono.

2007-01-28 Thread Jan McLaughlin
A hack solution would be to delete one of the stereo tracks in post. You'll use only mono in the end anyway, so... Jan On 1/27/07, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philip, > > Thanks for the very clear treatment of this information. I didn't know > so much about XLR phase inversio