 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosen here. I want to do a video today on connecting an XLR microphone into the XA40 camcorder. I'm going to be using for the purpose of this demo the Comica CVM V020. It's a lavalier microphone, a lav mic, but it is XLR connectivity. As you can see and not only that but the XLR does require, this is a microphone that requires 48-fold phantom power. So when you've got your XA40 set up, as if you own this camera you probably know that the XLR ports are on the top handle so the first thing you're going to need to do is attach that top handle unit to the camcorder. Then what you want to do, you can see on this side of the top handle you have input 1 and input 2. I think it makes sense to connect them sequentially so if you're only using one XLR input I would put that into input 1 but I don't think it really matters. And then on the other side of the top handle you've got your controls. Now this is important what you're looking at here so there's two inputs so therefore we've got two set of controls and the controls are line. Now I'm not sure what line does exactly. I do know what mic and mic plus 48 volts are so if you're using, if your mic requires phantom power you clearly want to go over to the mic plus 48. If it's just regular XLR you want to go to mic and if you know what the line does as opposed to mic then let me know in the comment section. Now this is totally separate to your 3.5 mil jack which is located in the panel on the other side so that's where this is where your 3.5 millimeter jack is it's this one here and you've got a 3.5 output for for monitoring so if you're monitoring if you want to monitor XLR with headphones you're going to need to get to this panel anyway but that's where the other input jack is just as an FYI. Coming back to this side of our panel so you've got two gain trims one gain one gain trim for each channel this is really nice because you can manually you can just adjust it with your finger this is maximum this is no this is maximum this is minimum so there is you just kind of can feel out the different gradations here and channel one now you've got a and m and a is automatic m is manual so this is automatic gain control on channel one this is manual gain control on channel one i'm always going to go for manual and on channel two again you've got automatic manual and likewise for channel two you can go between line mic and mic was phantom power now the important thing to do as well as all this stuff is make sure that this guy in the middle is turn two on and this controls both channel one and channel two so there the on switch is for both channels so i have it set up now for my microphone i have it turned on i have my gain control set to manual and i have the selector here over to mic plus 48 i'm going to start with kind of something like this uh in terms of the control so next thing to do i'm going to turn on the camcorder camcorder is on and yes we will just need to connect now so i'm going to take my xlr and put it in the right way and i'm going to try to do this with one hand there we go so decent connection lav mics are really easy to test if they're working because you can just do the uh you know test it like this tap on the microphone a few times make sure that guy's nice and secure so what you're seeing now is uh the levels are coming in here and let's just do a test okay so that's detecting from um our our lavalier it's connected now and if i turn this all the way down and i do my little test again so what you'll see now is you're not getting anything see no levels and if i crank this so you can control the gain just with the finger whatever and if i go all the way up to maximum the levels are way too high even with no sound coming into the microphone you can see it's all the way into clipping so as i'm rotating down the gain trim we're getting to something more manageable and now i'm actually speaking into the and i'm so you want to just kind of look at your monitor and adjust the levels on the trim wheel accordingly a couple more things to point out i'm going to take the light off this camcorder just so the glare isn't on that screen in the menu settings uh let me just use the menu settings this way a couple of things to know about not there oh yeah okay audio format so this is the first thing even option between two channel and four channels i'm gonna actually go back to two channels and then um once you've got an input connected you can see channel two input here and this you can toggle between input two and uh and input one and that's just routing the audio and you can do uh all sorts of stuff here as well you can do trimming attenuation on both of your XLR inputs but if i just get out of it now and i've gone back to two channel recording you can see i'm still recording from the XLR i just have uh less channels to play around with so that's pretty much it