Bought this RODE Mic to use with Scarlet but …

[Victor P]

Can anybody please help me? I bought this little RODE video micro mic to use with the Scarlet’s scratch audio … but I am not getting any audio ..does anybody know if this little guy should work or am I missing something ?

https://rode.com/en/microphones/on-camera/videomicro

 

[Iwan Jones]

You require a balanced input.The Rode is not balanced.I use a sennheiser 416 on my scarlet using xlr to mini jack cable.

 

[Victor P]

You require a balanced input.The Rode is not balanced.I use a sennheiser 416 on my scarlet using xlr to mini jack cable.

Thank you so much!

 

[Mike P.]

It's also only a mono-input on DSMC1; pretty sure the sleeve ring of the 3.5mm jack is used to carry phantom power. Most of the time a 3.5mm stereo-to-mono adapter will allow a mic to work (presuming it doesn't require phantom power). If you want phantom power or to use balanced mics, you need to get a non-standard 3.5mm-to-XLR adapter (with a hot pin-1), otherwise it won't work either (for powered or unpowered, balanced or unbalanced mics). Basically the reason Wooden Camera's A-Box did so well. At $100 it's the easiet/bulletproof solution.

It's actually bizarre that RED thought the design was a good idea... Even the mini-XLRs of R1 (that everyone complained about) were brilliant compared to the DSMC1s wonkzilla configuration... but I digress.

 

[Victor P]

It's also only a mono-input on DSMC1; pretty sure the sleeve ring of the 3.5mm jack is used to carry phantom power. Most of the time a 3.5mm stereo-to-mono adapter will allow a mic to work (presuming it doesn't require phantom power). If you want phantom power or to use balanced mics, you need to get a non-standard 3.5mm-to-XLR adapter (with a hot pin-1), otherwise it won't work either (for powered or unpowered, balanced or unbalanced mics). Basically the reason Wooden Camera's A-Box did so well. At $100 it's the easiet/bulletproof solution.

It's actually bizarre that RED thought the design was a good idea... Even the mini-XLRs of R1 (that everyone complained about) were brilliant compared to the DSMC1s wonkzilla configuration... but I digress.

I agree this is crazy ! ..thank you so much for your clarification !

 

[Victor P]

CAN Anybody PLEASE recommend “Economic” solutions for Audio in a Scarlet ? I only need scratch audio …nothing quality and a small factor mic ..(the smallest the better) , not a huge tube

Thanks!