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How to Record Audio with a Wireless Microphone on a Learning Broadcast

If you are producing a live learning broadcast and need to record with a wireless microphone during the broadcast, you will need to know how to set up your audio gear. Wireless microphones work by transmitting high frequencies to a receiver that is connected to your soundboard. Your soundboard then sends the signal out to the camera. You also have other ways to record the audio while you are broadcasting live. Your soundboard should have multiple outs that you can connect to a CD recorder.

Things You'll Need

  • Wireless microphone and receiver
  • Cables, either XLR or 1/4"
  • Soundboard
  • CD recorder
  • Headphones
  • Blank CDRs
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Instructions

  1. Setup

    • 1

      Set your wireless microphone and receiver to the same frequency. This way, the receiver will pick up the wireless signal. You will test the mic to make sure there is no interference on the frequency you chose later.

    • 2

      Connect the wireless mic's receiver to the soundboard. You can use track 1. On the back of your soundboard on track 1, you will see two kinds of inputs, XLR and 1/4." Choose the appropriate input for your cable.

    • 3

      Look at the back of your soundboard. You should see several different kinds of outputs on the master fader track. Take one output to your camera and one output to your CD recorder. Use the right kind of CD recorder, one that records live. These look like VCRs or DVD players and have the option to record live.

    • 4

      Test your equipment with headphones. Plug the headphones into the soundboard's headphone jack. Place the master fader and track one's fader to 0. Ask your performer to speak into the mic. Slowly turn up the gain knob at the top of track one until you have a good sound level. Test the camera with the headphones to make sure sound is getting to the camera.

    Recording

    • 5

      Start your camera rolling. Put a blank CD into the CD recorder. Hit record on the CD recorder.

    • 6

      Begin the learning broadcast.

    • 7

      Press stop on the CD recorder once the learning broadcast has ended. The CD recorder will ask you to finalize. This means you are permanently burning the CD. Finalize the CD and listen back to it to make sure it recorded.

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