Recommendations for a Hand Held Mic for a Canon L2

pwrlogic
Member

8-O I have a canon L2 hi8 unit with a stereo mic.
The mic is detachable and has two male 1/8 plugs for plugging into the camera.
One of the plugs is bigger than the other.
I need a handheld mic to use with this camera
All of the mics i have looked at are not stereo and the audio technica stereo mic has 1/4 jacks.
How the heck to you get a stereo mic signal into this camera.
no one sells thhose odd 1/8 stereo plug adapters.
if i plug in a mono mic i only get one side and it sounds weird.
i do see though that if you don't push the plug into the camera all the way it produces a stereo signal.
but if you move the cable or shake the mic the signal is interupted or distorted.
does anyone know what hand held mic i can get.
Thanks.

Posted 5 years ago #
pinnaclelwf
Member

I don't understand what you mean when you say one of the 1/8" jacks is bigger than the other-

Posted 5 years ago #
compusolver
Member

The Canon L2 has what appears to me to be a proprietary connector for microphones. Someone must make an adapter - maybe check on the Canon forums.

By the way, I bought an L2 off of eBay a year and a half ago or so and it never quite worked right - sometimes it would work fine and other times it didn't want to white balance or do audio right. I've had it sitting on a shelf for over a year. It has a hard case, good lens, mic, etc. If you'd like it for parts, I'd let it go for $100.

Posted 5 years ago #
pwrlogic
Member

Hi Y'all.
I found the answer to my issiue for a external mic .
The L2 uses a stereo mic, so i had to get a stereo mic with a 1/8 jack on the end.
i got the Audio technica pro 24 from american music supply.
i also found out that the other cable on the canon mic that came with the camera is the power cable, thats why that mic works without batteries. I also found out from these great guys
http://www.studio1productions.com, that you can use any handheld mic and get a stereo signal if you have a stereo xlr audio adapter.
I don't know why no one on this site could tell me how to do this (record stereo audio from a handheld mic).
anyway case closed. :)

Posted 5 years ago #
compusolver
Member

that you can use any handheld mic and get a stereo signal if you have a stereo xlr audio adapter

That's not true.

You can lay down the same mono signal to both left and right tracks - but that isn't "stereo". You have stereo when you have two unique audio signals from two different sides recorded respectively on "left" and "right" audio tracks.

You could also record mono to the left track, using one mic and use another mic to record on the right track. If those mics where set up properly, you would then have a "stereo" recording.

At any rate, I'm glad you found a solution.

Posted 5 years ago #