How To Connect Audio Mixer To Camera

In this video, we show you two ways to connect your audio mixer to a DSLR-style video camera. For the majority of the video, you're listening to the lav mic that is clipped on to my jacket. You're only hearing the EV-RE20 when we are connected to the camera.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - Pricing & Specs
0:38 - Balanced vs Unbalanced Cables
2:10 - Mic Level vs Line Level
2:48 - Mixer Outputs (Aux, Monitor, Main/Stereo)
4:55 - Audio Mixer Setup
5:40 - Option 1: Audio Interface For Cameras
12:00 - Option 2: Dual 1/4" TS to 1/8" TRS Cable
15:37 - Audio Interface vs Dual 1/4" TS to 1/8" TRS Cable
16:28 - Final Thoughts

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[stevenpam]

Love your videos, Jordan. There are so many muppets on YouTube with dangerous half-knowledge confidently spreading misinformation. You seem like a guy who always reads the manual, which is refreshing!

[ryanpalmer]

Thank you so much for this! I hopped onto eBay and got the DXA-2T, exactly the blue one in the video, for $50. It was EXACTLY what I needed to go from Mixcast 4, to our Sony ZV-E10. Now I get the pro quality sound from our studio, right into our main camera so I don't have to sync it in post anymore. This is going to save me hours every week!

[johnandunisha]

WOW! Thank you so much. I've been struggling with hiss in my camera recordings for my church for years. I never realized that my issue was the Mic/Line level difference. I just used an interface and it fixed it all. Thank

[drumnotdrum]

This video didn’t exist when I last searched this stuff. Cheers.

[joeshmoe]

Some mixers have 'Tape Out', with unbalanced RCA jacks. Works good for short runs. Depending on the circumstance, a stereo out can also be taken from the head phone jack. Mackie make a point of the headphone jack as an optional out put with plenty of signal.

Over all and excellent instructional video.

One note, if a mono signal is recorded in the camera, in post, the track can be doubled for a Left/Right output, but will not be stereo. Most of us know what you meant, but a total newbie will need to understand a double mono will not have stereo imaging. - Cheers

[medrinkmusic]

A thousand thanks!
How could I not think of a simple RCA-3.5mm cable?!
I use a Pioneer DJ console so it obviously has the mixer wih stereo outputs ecc..
I took it for granted that it wouldn't work without an interface, so I always tried with the classic "iRig" interface and it never worked (but it did with the phone, connected by earphone 3, 5 plug).
By connecting the RCA cable, and setting the volume to -3dB, it immediately worked. Thanks again !!! Subscribed!!

[leonardofigueiredo]

Man, your videos are the best on the subject - just relevant and well explained information.

[rohansundarj]

Great video.👏This is the video I was searching for more than a month...Thankyou.

[oladayotaiwo]

First time commenting ever on YouTube and it’s cos this is a great great educational content. I needed it.

[sarahjaneandtheschmooze]

Great videos!
No one explains how to hook up all this equipment. Love your channel❤

[budgetbasscovers]

This is exactly the info I needed, and the extra benefit is that I have that exact same mixer!

[samuelrivera]

Your videos are phenomenal, really help the audio challenged like myself.

[marvinmediafilmmaker]

Can you do video on Shure SM7B Vocal to connect to phone or ipad ?

[speliotis]

So thorough thank you - so many events I film have trouble getting good audio connection to my camera...

[GregBakerPoPPaG]

Thank you Thank you Thank you. I have seen so many useless videos showing me video camera unboxing. This is exactly what I wanted to learn.. I’m a drummer and I teach. I wanted to give my students a sound quality video lesson from my digital drums to my mixer to be uploaded to I-Movie on my computer instead of using the camera microphone
Again, thanks

[ffytgm]

Excellent, very informative, well made video. Thank you for the explanation.

[SteveVickAK]

Awesome. I just learned so much. Like why my connection to the mixer was blowing out my mic... wish I watched this a week before the event and not a week after :(. Thanks much for the great info.

[watchmanvancouver]

Very precise illustration of different methods of how to connect the camera to the mixer and the key of how to ensure proper input level for sound recording with good quality while not affecting the in house sound quality😘.👍🙌👍👏😘🙏😇🐷🦁

[midiexpert]

Excellent and helpful video. Question: MY Soundcraft UI24 mixer has xlr aux outputs, could I use them with a y cable (xlr female to 3.5mm male) and feed that to a camera input and sitll ahve it work, wth the limitations you described a given as well? In the past I have used an IK multimedia interface _irig Stream) to feed diretly from main outputs to the rca inputs of the interface and it works well (until my interface died ), but I'm going to go with a camera instead of my iPhone and it would be handy to use one of the techniques you described here. Thanks.

[TheHoan]

can you tell me, can kopul cmx2 transmit sound to iphone? ❤