recording

[julett]

I'm using DV camcorder to broadcast our church service on the internet but i have one problem and that is the audio. instead of receiving audio from the our sound system the audio is through the camera which picks up surround sound. Does anyone has any advice on receiving better audio. I've been using a JVC DV camcorder and it does have an earphone port.

Thanks

[petereit]

What kind of video card are you using in your computer to capture? Does it have separate audio inputs? You could pull a "clean feed" off your sound board, plugged into your video board's audio inputs and use that in place of your camera's audio.

Another option, if your camera has external microphone inputs, you could run that clean audio feed to your camera and use it instead of the camera's built-in mic.

My JVC has two XLR inputs for audio. I run a clean feed from my sound board into channel 1, and the shotgun mic on top of the camera to channel 2. Then I adjust the input levels so the clean feed is prominent, but you still get some congregation noise to give it some "presence".

[sempei13]

If you're coming out of the cam w/firewire, you probably need to add the audio to signal in-camera (otherwise you'll probably have latency issues).

Paul

[sien]

Could we find out the model of your JVC DV video camera?

[julett]

I'm using a laptop because we're using a auadio recording program on the desktop. You just gave mw an ideal, instead of using the audio program cpy the service on DVD.

Thanks

[julett]

We have updates our camera to a sony hvr1000u and I'm using a laptop to stream our church service but i would like audio to come from our samson mixer, are you saying I can run a wire from our computer which is connected to the mixer and plug it into the on camera mix port?

thanks

[sien]

Well the HVR 1000U only has a mic input, what you could consider is to send a signal from your Samson mixer to your laptop audio input.

[tkpeterson12]

With the HVR1000U, I would use a XLR Adapter like a Beachtek or a JuicedLink. There are even versions that also include Phantom power.

You could run the output from the mixer into one channel and a "ambience"/"crowd" mic into the other channel for the "presence" you desire.

A cheaper yet less flexible option would be a output from the mixer into a DI box with a XLR to 1/8" cable into the cameras mic input.