Posted by muzician21 on 03/10/06 00:43

I may be video taping a friend's performance at a local country bar.
Since it's a typical noisy cowboy/cowgirl type of place, we're thinking
we should hook up my camcorder to the house sound board.

Using a Sony Digital8 Camcorder, has an 1/8" mic-in jack, though I've
never used it. Since the camera has onboard mics that record stereo, I
assume the jack to be stereo as well. It also has one of these 3 into 1
jacks on the side for analog audio and video input, but I'm guessing is
strictly for use in VCR mode, and won't accept sound input in camcorder
mode. Will fiddle with it further to confirm this.

Going on the premise I'd be using the mic-in jack for taking external
sound input, what issues do I need to be conscious of? Do these boards
typically have some kind of auxilliary stereo output that can be routed
out to something like this? I'm got penty of patch cords and size
adapters since I assume the stuff on the board will be 1/4", but I'm
concerned about impedance/compatibility issues with the in-house board,
certainly don't want to fry my cam.

Is it likely this consumer cam will accept input from this board as is,
or might I need something between them? If more info is needed, I
imagine I could find out the specifics of the board they have. I've got
some time before this friend's gig there.

This cam has no level meter, the sound is auto level, so I'd have to do
some trial/error tape and playback while something is going on to make
sure the levels aren't being overloaded. It has a headphone jack also,
so maybe I could use that for level monitoring. Haven't used it yet.

Thanks for all input.

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