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Setting and monitoring your levels

Setting and monitoring your levels

From the course: Pro Video Tips

Setting and monitoring your levels

So at this point of setting up audio before we can monitor our levels, we should have made sure that we had everything correct on a little black box, our mic line and auto manual switches, as well as having gone in the menu, looking at our Audio Input as well as our Audio Output to make sure that everything is recording and being monitored the way that we thought it was. The first thing that I'm going to do is make sure that I will record some bars and tone. So I'm just going to go into the menu right here, and I have already turned on my tones. I'm just going to show you guys right here. So I'm going to go into the Audio Input menu and go all the way down to the bottom of the menu here. And now not all cameras are going to have this, but I'm going to show you again in case you didn't watch the other movie. And I have my 1 kHz Tone set to minus 12 dB, because I'm a minus 12 dB guy. If you're a little bit more conservative and worried about getting hot levels, then you might want to…

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