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For a camera which has manual control, throttling the gain to about 1/3 full gain is
a good place to start. Different cameras may have a different sweet spot for
lowest noise performance with decent dynamic range. You will have to conduct
some recording tests to experiment.
Some cameras do not have a meter, and only coarse granularity of manual control
(such as a “low”, “medium”, and “high” setting). Start with your camera’s “low”
setting, and conduct some tests where your audio signal on the DT454 meter
peaks splash into the 3
rd
amber LED, but do not hit (or, infrequently hit) the 4
th
red
LED.
If your camera has a meter, then follow these steps to get started:
1. Connect a mic to your DT454, and adjust the GAIN and TRIM (volume
potentiometer) settings so that when you speak into your microphone, the
meter peaks splash to the 3
rd
amber DT454 LED, without illuminating the 4
th
red LED (or infrequently doing so).
2. Throttle back the camera gain, until the peaks splash just past the -12dB full
scale meter reading on the camera. Now your DT454 and camera meters
(for the given camera setting) are calibrated.
Make sure you turn down all of the TRIM potentiometers on the DT454 which
do not have a microphone connected to its input. Preamps without the
impedance of a microphone connected to their input, have a high impedance at
the preamp input, which results in the preamp generating a lot of noise. So, turn
down all of the TRIM potentiometers on the DT454 which do not have a
microphone connected to its input.
If it is desirable to adjust the meter sensitivity, there are adjustment potentiometers
behind the holes in the bottom of the enclosure next to the HI and LO markings
which provide a limited adjustment range.
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