Posted by nobody special on 04/01/06 04:52

I'll play.

Sounds like you want to feed up to 4 things into the mixer and then
feed the mix into your camcorder. make sure batteries are installed
correctly and/or the unit is plugged into AC power.

The Wireless Receivers probably output a mic-level signal. Put them on
the first two inputs of the mixer and look for a Impedance switch that
toggles between Mic level and line level. If you have Phantom power
turned on for the first two inputs, turn it off. Put your guitars on
inputs three and four, set these to LINE level.

Turn all the knobs of the front down to zero. Turn the knob for the
headphones up to half.

Find the headphone output of the mixer, put on phones and plug in.

If this mixer has a tone generator, turn that on. Often, the tone
generator shares a knob with input channel ONE. Look for that. Turn it
up to a setting about halfway.

Now find the MASTER output knob, it's usually the last one on the
right, slowly bring that up and in your headphones you should begin to
hear the tone oscillator and see the needle start to come up. Set the
master knob so the needle peaks a little under zero. With analog gear,
we'd take it to zero, but with digital, typically we bring it in lower
to avoid the chance of clipping (losing signal from being overly
loud).

Take a cable from the OUTPUT of the mixer to the input of your camera.
If thr mixer output is set to LINE, the camera input must also be set
to LINE, and if the output switch is set to MIC level, set the camera
to mic level.

Turn on the camcorder with a tape in it, put it in camera mode. If you
plug a headphone into the camera's headphone jack, you should now be
hearing the same oscillator tone. Adjust the input level controls of
your camcorder to so the bars on your screen are under zero, perhaps
-20 would be good. If your camcorder only does automatic audio level
control (AGC or ALC), then adjust the tone at the mixer output so you
don't hear any distortion at the camera. Now turn the tone generator
off.

One by one, turn on each source and set an individual level that peaks
at the same place as your tone did. When all four sources are
simultaneously open, you will probably have to lower the master level a
little bit to keep the overall level at the peak you set with the tone
generator. Monitor the camera's headhone again, see if you hear any
distortion, if so, bring the camera's input level down some more, or
lower the master mixer level some more.

A word about wireless mics. Many have a three-position switch that
goes from off to stand-by (transmits a carrier wave but no audio) and
full-on. Obviously make sure it's set to full-on, and see if the power
LED light indicator onthe mic part is on, maybe you put the battery in
wrong. Also, do not mix up which transmiter goes with which receiver:
label them in an obvious manner, perhaps with color-coded vinyl tape.
I have five identical wireless units at work and though i'ma pro, once
in a while I myself still take a TX and RX that are not a matched pair,
in the heat of a quick getaway. But I don't do it too often.

Go thru all these steps and get back to me if you still have issues.

For extra credit, I'll talk you thru hard-wiring your 4 sources to the
mixer, then feedign a wireless mix to the camera, so you can walk
around the band and get consistent sound.

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