Re: Low Levels?

In my experience having your peaks only one bar in the red on the DVX
is too low. Remember you are looking at a peak meter, your peaks seem
to want to be higher than this. I've done the audio post on shows I
also did the field recording onw/ this camera, and this is what I found
about levels. The way you are doing it now might require a 20 db boost
in post to get the audio up to broadcast levels. The successive bars
of the DVX audio meter are pretty far apart in level, and I've found
that that camera can take being hit pretty hard. If you under-record
on it the post- boosted level has a harsh sound to it. It's good to be
worried about headroom--the truth is that these small cameras require
the mixer to thread the needle between too much and not enough more
than the more expensive ones, but what is also true is that being too
low is just as big a problem as being too hot, and this is coming up
all the time these days.

Philip Perkins

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