http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Topic: Manual gain control for microphone en Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:08:08 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/manual-gain-control-for-microphone#post-51998 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:45:41 +0000 XTR-91 51998@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've recently purchased the JVC GZ-MG505 camcorder a while ago and had a change to test how well it handles signals from an external microphone. It seems that they've implemented some sort of "Auto-gain" that controls the camera's sound system.</p> <p> </p> <p>I've recently constructed my own simple "shotgun mic" (PVC pipe with wire and mic elements). It seems to record fine into my camcorder, picking up a ton of off-axis noise and sounds like its clipping the on-axis sound. I doubt it's a design problem, because the clipping picks up heavily when someone speaks at a normal tone into the front of the microphone, being approximately 2 - 3 feet away. Are there any workarounds, such as finding a good small mic attenuator. I'm not chasing after anything fancy, just need a small mic level adjuster that fits with a 1/8" miniplug (in and out).</p> <p> </p> <p>Any advice on where to find a good, small mic attenuator that I can use to get around this issue ($1 - $10 range)? If this doesn't help, are there any other options for a better work-around?</p>