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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 05/29/07 21:36
Powell wrote:
> Purchased a new video camera with manual XLR
> inputs. However the microphone preamp has such
> little gain that I'm forced to use an external microphone
> preamp as a head-amplifier to drive the camera's
> XLR inputs.
>
> What type of microphones have sufficient gain to drive
> these XLR inputs? What doesn't work: Shure KSM 27
> (104 ohms), AKG C420 (200 ohms) and Sennheiser ME66
> (200 ohms). A phone call to Canon tech support, they
> didn't have any information on the microphone preamp
> specifications. It was their_understanding_ that any 600
> ohm microphone would work.
Did you do as Phil suggested in your post to RAMPS and check your switch
settings? For example, heck that the input switch is set to Mic in and
that the 20 db pad is turned off.
I looked at the specs for this camera and there's no reason why any mic
shouldn't work.
Mike
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