Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:58 pm
The VA will only record two channels of audio, either the imbedded audio from the camera or external audio from the XLR. The only external recorder monitor I know of that will support more than two channels of audio, is the Video Devices Pix E wi the LR, it will record upto 4-channels imbedded audio and two additional tracks from the LR XLR imputs. With the LR attached you get great mic preamps, with full mixer processing and you can assign which audio track records imbedded and the XLR external feeds.
This was one of the main reasons I so,d my VA and got the PixE. The PixE records to eSata drives, which are larger than a SD, but smaller than SSDs (think two SD cards stacked one on top the other, with a USB connector on one end).
Cheers
Denny Smith
SHA Productions