Balance audio input for Scarlet

[Christian Stoehr]

Hi guys, I need to have quick turnaround on an up-comming project and was hoping I could feed my sound straight into the scarlet ontop of the external recording. I keep hearing that the Scarlet audio is not as good and that you can`t connect balanced. But then I also heard about a adapter cable to XLR.
Can someone clear this up for me and let me know if I need to rent a certain module.

Thanks a lot.

Christian
Rochester, MI

 

[Josef Gatti]

For quick turnaround, get a zoom h4n and feed a double male ended 3.5mm jack from the zoom (audio out) to scarlet (audio in). Balance it via the zoom, and record straight to the r3d. You'll have quite a bit of control of the sound you're recording. You can input 2 XLR microphones into the zoom.

 

[D Fuller]

Hi guys, I need to have quick turnaround on an up-comming project and was hoping I could feed my sound straight into the scarlet ontop of the external recording. I keep hearing that the Scarlet audio is not as good and that you can`t connect balanced. But then I also heard about a adapter cable to XLR.
Can someone clear this up for me and let me know if I need to rent a certain module.

Christian, you can feed balanced audio into an Epic or Scarlet. You cannot feed them line-level audio, the camera likes mic level. And the camera will provide phantom power. If you your mics (or mic cables) have XLR connectors, you need an adapter. Here is a RU post that will tell you what adapter you should get: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...Work-(And-why)&p=931844&viewfull=1#post931844

Stereo mics are complicated. You'll have to split the channels to the two mono channels the camera has. Be sure that whoever makes that adapter knows what they're doing if you go that way.

There are a couple of devices that work especially well with Red's audio quirks: Sound Devices Mix Pre-D is great, puts out mic level, has great preamps, and has real knobs and meters if you like that sort of thing; the above-mentioned Zoom h4n has a lot of fans, is a little less ergonomic, but has the added advantage of making a back-up recording.

If you are recording only to the camera, I would not use a beta version of the firmware, I'd use the latest release version.