which overloads the microphone circuitry. If the camera has an audio input jack, use that instead of the mic connection.
Of course, there's always the question of why bother? You can capture the video with your computer, and merge it with the audio that's already recorded by the computer. That gives you a video with sound which may be used to play on the computer, burn a DVD, or write out via the camera to a tape.
I am preparing to video tape a live speech on my Sony TRV18E.
My plan is to try to get a better sound quality from a audio mixer (Behringer), and since I haven't done that before and have no accessories at all at the moment. So, I conducted a few experiments to find out how to achieve the desirable outcome with the limited accessories:
1) connect Computer sound card OUT to camcorder's mic IN and press record (not dubbing) button
2) connect TV audio OUT to camcorder's mic IN and press record.
Unfortunately, the sound quality from both recordings sounded worse than built-in mic!!
Any suggestion on what should I do to improve the sound quality?
Thanks very much.
Chwan Keng

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