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Sending tone and testing levels

Sending tone and testing levels

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Sending tone and testing levels

So now we've got everything hooked up properly. And we've made sure that we're getting a signal from our microphone to our camera. Now we want to make sure that we're getting a good and clean audio signal to our camera. All I was concerned about before, just making sure I'm getting some audio. Now I'm going to go ahead and clean it up make sure I'm getting proper audio. So to do, that I need to make sure the mixer and the camera are speaking the same language. This is important concept to understand because this is an analogue mixer, however this is a digital camera, when it comes to audio. So this is analogue audio, and digital audio. The only difference between the two is a scale. So these are both measuring audio, the exact same way. But using two different scales. So I like to tell people to think of it as the difference between the English system and the metric system. There's a big difference between inches and centimeters, and you'll want to make sure you understand that…

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