Connect an Audio Mixer Console to a Canon Vixia HF G70 mic input

Manolete — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:16:48 GMT

I want to know if this can be done. I record a podcast with a Canon Vixia HF G70 camera. For the audio I have microphones connected to a Mackie Onyx 8 mixer. I connect the main output of the mixer (balanced XLR) with an XLR to 1/8" cable to the mic input terminal of the Canon Vixia HF G70 port on the camera. Audio in video recorded sounds good, but I need to keep levels on my audio mixer very low and I hear a hiss in the background on my recordings.

I had been searching for options on how to reduce the hiss, and came out with the option to install a passive Direct Box between the 1/4" unbalance output of the Mackie Onyx 8 mixer, and the Canon Vixia HF G70 camera input. I tried it, now the mixer can be set to decent levels (unitary), and hiss had drastically reduced.

I want to know if this is good, or I am doing it wrong. Direct Box I am using is a passive DBX 10.

Re: Connect an Audio Mixer Console to a Canon Vixia HF G70 mic input

kvbarkley — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:28:54 GMT

That should be fine, anything that attenuates the line level to mic level should be fine. Radio Shack used to sell a 1/8 phone plug to 1/8 phone plug attenuating cable for this purpose.

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Connect an Audio Mixer Console to a Canon Vixia HF G70 mic input

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