topic Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

mikefulton — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:47:15 GMT

I am such a new user I don't even have my camera yet.

I'm sitting here waiting for the Amazon driver to deliver it. I did get my memory card already, though.

When recording video, the camera has the option for either 2-channel or 4-channel audio. If I understand the information I've read correctly, when recording 4-channel, you can have:

2 channels from built-in microphone (is this mono or stereo?)
or:
2 channels from the multi-function shoe

Plus:

2 channels from the "mic" input

Am I understanding this correctly, or is there an option to get all 4 channels from the multi-function shoe? I've been searching for accessories online and it seems like the only intersection of "audio" and the multi-function show is a shoe -mounted microphone like Canon's?

What I'd REALLY like to get for audio is an external multi-track recorder. Is anybody doing anything like that? I'd love to hear about your setup.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

shadowsports — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:15:51 GMT

Greetings,

The internal mics on the R50v are stereo 🤗

In addition, you can use a 3.5mm stereo mic or multifunction shoe accessory microphone like the DM-E100 for a total of 4 channels. The gain on each channel can be adjusted independently in camera. The gain or balance between the inputs (onboard vs. accessory) is not adjustable in camera 😉 Hope this clarifies things.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

leoklaus — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:08:48 GMT

@shadowsports wrote:
Greetings,
The internal mics on the R50v are stereo 🤗
In addition, you can use a 3.5mm stereo mic or multifunction shoe accessory microphone like the DM-E100 for a total of 4 channels.

Are you sure this is the case? I can't manage to combine the internal stereo mics with the 3.5mm input. If I plug in an external microphone, the camera simply mirrors those two tracks to channels 3 and 4 when recording in 4 channels (which is just useless waste of storage). I can't find a way to enable the internal mic as long as an external one is connected via the 3.5mm input.

As far as I can tell, the only way to actually get 4 channel audio is by combining a hot shoe accessory for audio and either the internal and an external mic. And the only two devices I've found to support the hot shoe are the Canon DM-E1D which costs about half as much as the body itself or the Tascam XLR adapter which costs about as much as the body itself.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

shadowsports — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:09:36 GMT

Greetings,

You have to enable lpcm 24-bit/4-channel. See the audio format heading in the link below.

Canon : Product Manual : EOS R50 V : Sound Recording https://share.google/A3PGOWWIynfqWPFtF

The microphone you're plugging into the 3.5 mm jack has to be a stereo mic. Your playback software also has to support 4 channel audio.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

leoklaus — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:58:20 GMT

Hi Rick, thanks for the response. 4 channel LPCM is selected, but no matter what I do I can only get internal mic on channel 1 through 4 or external mic on 1 through 4. Channels 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 always contain the exact same audio. I don't see any way to change the sources for either channel and the manual also does not explain how this could be configured.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

Petruchio — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:46 GMT

Exactly the same story.
4-channel recording. Monitoring 3-4 channels.

Result: 4 identical files. 2-4 are out of phase.

I connected a Zoom F3, a Sony stereo microphone, and a lavalier radio.

If I don't connect anything in 4-channel mode, it also records 4 identical files.

I think it's a firmware bug. What do you think, Canon?
It can't record 2=2 independent stereo channels.

This is visible on the camera's screen. It switches the names of all four inputs to EXT and INT.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

leoklaus — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:16:16 GMT

As far as I can tell, the only way to actually record 4 channel audio is to use an external microphone via the multi-function shoe (which at this time means either the mediocre at best DM-E1D or the Tascam CA-XLR2d-C, which is really cool but also costs about as much as the R50Vs body...).

I think it's really disingenuous to leave the marked reply to this up as it's clearly very misleading.

Re: New EOS R50 V User Confused about 4-channel audio options

Petruchio — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:24:15 GMT

Maybe someone from #CANON can shed some light on these 4 channels ((((