 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to do another rigging video for folks who like me own a pocket gimbal and love their pocket gimbal. I'm so pleased with this particular camera purchase and actually I'm now finding ways to rig around the Femi and just only really using my camcorder and my full-size gimbal rarely. This is like this really really fits around the type of camera recording I'm trying to do and learning to do for this YouTube channel. So basically someone asked on one of these Facebook groups for DJI owners well how can I rig up two external microphones to my to my to my Osmo pocket and people were like yeah you can't do that which is the correct answer but what I want to do is show a method that you know a rigging option that might be of interest to people now just to come back to that point yeah there's only one 3.5 mil input on both the DJI Osmo pocket one and two and the Femi pan one and two both of them only have one you will find camcorders on the market with two XLR inputs you know the higher end prosumer and professional camcorders I've even seen three or four but this just has a single 3.5 millimeter input now that does mean that you can't directly connect more than one microphone external microphone but there is a workaround and that's the that's what I'm here to show today so firstly I'm going to start this with an albracad I right I've got my Femi pan two on an albracad my albracad gives me two cold shoes I've done a couple of videos just about getting getting this far and using external microphone and and light setup so the next thing is to get a microphone mixer for camcorders now you can easily use a passive one or an active one an active one Saramanic have a couple of them they're going to have a battery in them and the difference is that when you have a powered camcorder mixer you can plug in a microphone that needs phantom power so it's going to have a little 48 volt switch and you can put that on and that's going to obviously allow you to use much better microphones so that's one option as you can use a Saramanic and get that on the rig it's a bit bulkier I'm just going to use for this for this setup a passive mixer now a passive mixer passively mixes the two microphone sources it does not have an internal battery and it's actually not an electrical device so it just takes the power from the microphone feeds and mixes them here and puts them out it does have a mono stereo switch so you can choose to output in stereo which is going to give you two different channels one for each microphone or you can mix down two mono by flipping the switch to mono and you're going to have two gain levers as well so that you can adjust the gain on each channel you just need to make sure you know which microphone is going to which so the other thing about this guy is it does have a quarter inch and a cold shoe at the bottom right so what I'm going to do firstly is let me think the best way to do this actually I'm going to use one more component I'm going to use a three to one cold shoe because I'm going to run out of cold shoes so I'll bracket I'm going to put my cold shoe extender into the top here and I'm going to screw down it will be better to have a single nut cold shoe adapter but I'm just going to use this one okay so this is what we look like so far this is going to be a bit of a ridiculous setup but you know that's how we're going to do this and I'm going to put my microphones on here and I'm going to put the mixer here off to the side okay so I'm screwing in my mixer and yes it is horizontal but that should not make a difference actually I'm going to do it the other way I'm getting confused here yeah I'm going to do it this way so that the dials are facing me okay so I'm just making sure that the passive mixer is really well secured so now it's really well secured maybe that was premature okay now it's really well secured okay so it's on and what I'm going to do is connect the output and you can see there is output left right so our two microphones are going to go on to left and right and I'm going to connect the output into the pocket gimbal so now we just need to get our microphones on so this is a bit of work but bear with me I'm just going to grab two random microphones so I'm going to take one microphone a stereo microphone now of course it would make more sense to do something like have a wireless lav receiver and that way we could use we could you know wire up a subject with a lavalier and we could have a shotgun as well and we could then just be mixing the two on the fly that would be one setup so first microphone is on and this is actually facing backwards so that you could do that you could have the shotgun facing towards you and you are speaking as you hold the rig or let's just have it more conventionally facing out to the world so I'm going to go ahead and make sure that guy is on and then what I need to do is get the output from the microphone and I'm going to put it into left channel so in this case left channel is going to be the shotgun and right channel is going to be the second microphone so I'm just going to grab another microphone this is the comica track shot which is a really really interesting microphone and for the sake of variety I'm going to have it in a different configuration I'm going to have it pointing back towards me well let's just say I don't have a wireless lav on hand and then this would be going into the right channel now this is causing a bit of chaos as you can see it probably would have been actually being smarter to put it on this side this is a ridiculous rig but it should do the job now I'm actually going to move this second microphone given the small space constraints here if you had something like a if you had something like actually I can use a cold shoe actually positioning the second microphone on a cold shoe that's on the passive mixer the passive mixer itself has a cold shoe here and it's actually got a cold shoe here as well so I could also put it there but whatever and now I'm just going to connect yeah these two are connected so just to summarize what I've done here I've got two microphones this is the comica track shot which is pointing back towards me this is uh that's going into right channel left channel is the shotgun microphone up here the passive mixer is mounted here to the albrac is and that's mixing the sources passively and the femis here now is this heavy no it's not that heavy it's definitely usable I'm going to turn it on and then the outputs running into the femi and now all I need to do is on this side of the apparatus I'm going to I'm going to actually do stereo and I just need to mix my two channels so if I just turn on the right channel up to right up to maximum it's only capturing from this microphone and I'm going to turn the gain down to zero here and etc I can just play around with that as I shoot so this is admittedly not the most conventional rig or setup in the world but if you are intent on connecting multiple microphones to your pocket gimbal this is one way you could go about doing that thanks for watching guys feel free to subscribe for more videos