Recording levels
Sound monitoring
Monitoring audio quality is difficult in single person camera/recorder operations. If there is time, a double-sided headset can be used to check quality but more often time is at a premium and single-sided headsets (or none) are used. It is only by listening to the sound that an evaluation can be made. Audio level meters in the viewfinder and on the recorder side panel only assess loudness and do not identify the source of the sound. The least one can achieve with the intelligent use of a meter is to avoid a sound overload pushing the audio into the limiting circuit when its level exceeds the maximum permissible recording level. Beyond this point, the audio will be progressively distorted with no increase in ...
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