OTHER AUDIO TROUBLE SPOTS
Yet another source of potential audio frustrations can be found in the camera’s menu. Make it a habit to check key settings on the camera menu system, including the audio menu set. Specifically, check these things:
1. Audio Monitoring Setup
These settings affect only how you hear the audio through your headphones, not what’s actually being recorded. Nevertheless, if you inadvertently have them on a wrong setting, you may panic (on the inside) that you are not recording audio on one of the channels or mistakenly listen to the opposite channel you intended to. (This can occur with the “CH1 ” or “CH2” settings on the following chart.) Audio pros monitor camera or mixer audio in Stereo – CH1/CH2, so they can hear Channel ...
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