Dual Channel Audio Canon EOS R100

[KBowIA]

Is there a way to use both a lapel microphone and a shotgun microphone through a splitter and end up with dual audio channels with this camera?

Thanks

[shadowsports · Accepted solution]

Greetings,

The internal microphone is mono.

The 3.5 mm stereo jack is 2 channel.  L&R.

You can't use a splitter as you will only get 2 channels regardless of what you connect.  The R100 will only capture audio from either the internal microphone (mono) or a stereo microphone plugged into the 3.5 mm jack.

[KBowIA]

Thank you for the quick reply. If I am wishing to purchase another camera that would support two separate channels for a shotgun microphone and a lapel microphone, how would I know it is capable of this? I am struggling finding what specification points to this ability.

[p4pictures]

It may be easier to use an external dual channel mixer that has independent level settings for each channel and can output a left / right channels to the camera. I have a Comica dual channel wireless setup that allows me to adjust the levels of each channel independently on the receiver.

EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1 both support up to 4-channel recording, with independent levels for each pair of channels. 

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-03_Shooting-2_0090.html 

[KBowIA]

To make sure I am understanding you correctly, would this setup work on my EOS R100 since it has left / right channels for the 3.5mm jack receiver?

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

I use the Comica VM40 dual channel mics this set comes with two wireless shotgun mics and a single dual channel receiver that goes on the camera. With this setup I can feed the two mics in to the camera as left/right channels and each input has independent recording level settings on the receiver. I'm using it with an EOS R6 Mark II and EOS R10 and it works well.

In the edit I just need to make sure that the audio is treated as dual channel mono, not stereo.