From the course: Video Gear: Audio

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Beachtek adapters

Beachtek adapters

- You have some stuff from Beechtek. They've been around for a long time, right? - Yeah. I first became familiar with Beechtek at the start of the DSLR revolution. I was one of those guys that went out and bought a 5D, and I was rocking and rolling on it 'till I realized, "Oh yeah, we have a big problem with audio." And Beechtek for years has been making audio adapters, not just for DSLRs, for all sorts of given situations with video cameras, and for a lot of people, they are a go to solution. There's another manufacturer that I also am used to called juicedLink making similar products, but basically what these guys allow you to do is it's a preamp, right? It's a sort of preamp with a little bit of a built in mixer on it that lets you pipe a signal from the preamp or sort of a little mixer here out to your camera. - And essentially, this is acting as a base plate, and you could attach a camera. This camera is a little bit smaller than what you often put on here, but let's walk it…

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