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Audio (hot shoe AND mic input at the same time?)

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Kharan
Kharan Senior Member • Posts: 2,487
Re: Audio (hot shoe AND mic input at the same time?)

Mindbend wrote:

I have Canon's DM-E1D and a Sennheiser wireless receiver connected to my R5C. It looks like I can only record one or the other, not both. Can anyone confirm this or am I doing something wrong?

When I have the DM-E1D connected, it overrides the mic input.

I don’t own any of those things, but I’m pretty confident that the R5C cannot record from two different audio sources, because I’ve never seen a camera without XLR inputs with that feature. Sony implemented a smart hot shoe years ago, but audio recording has always been an either/or proposition on them (and actually it’s pretty simple, the camera defaults to the hot shoe source in that case). Canon are supposed to release an XLR adapter compatible with the R5C (maybe they already have, I don’t know) and that should be able to accept two parallel audio streams.

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