 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel very warm. Welcome back. This is Daniel Rosal here for today's video I'm always learning more about video and audio production these days And I'm gonna be showing you how to run a XLR microphone into a zoom H1N Field recorder now the zoom H1Ns have a really well-deserved reputation It's been just incredibly versatile tools for People who are kind of at my stage of the videography journey a couple of years in still consider myself an Early-state student of this fascinating world. You can pass a microphone Through them so they've aligned in and line out so you can run this Through the zoom while also recording onto the zoom to have a backup, which is one fantastic thing They do they can also be used completely handheld. You've got these two Microphones at the top so they're very versatile and they're very very useful That's why they're so popular But what happens if now if you a couple of months ago I upgraded from a consumer camcorder from Canon up to my first professional grade camcorder the Canon XA40 and Given that that has a professional top audio handle. I started upgrading my microphones from these kind of pretty basic 3.5 mil mics up to more professional microphones, which tend to have XLR connectivity now if you take your average XLR microphone, here's a shotgun microphone from Boya This is the BY BM 6060 that I was using before I upgraded to an audio technical microphone These guys tend to terminate in XLR right so your three pronged XLR connection Now you might ask how do I guess an XLR microphone into? This so the answer is really simple actually you can just use a XLR to TRS cable like the one I have here But the second thing second feature you'll find with a lot of these more Professionally oriented XLR microphones is that they require phantom power So we've got two jobs really to get our XLR microphone into these into something like the zoom H1n field recorder firstly we need to supply the microphone with phantom power and secondly we need to Just have a XLR to the 3.5 mil Cable so regarding the first question of Getting power in I recently picked up a terrific gizmo. It's called the x-vive P1 phantom power injector this little gadget is does what it says on the tin It's a very simple piece of gear It has an on-off switch and you've got a few little nice LED lights that light up And you've got one switch here that has 12 volt 48 volt written on it So it'll toggle the power inject from 20 to from 12 to 48 volts This means that whether you're if you have this gear whether your XLR microphone has an internal battery compartment or not Now some like this boy it do Personally, I prefer the method of using an external battery like this for the reason that if you're only doing this very occasionally you probably don't want to have a Battery sitting in a microphone for six months because there's always a concern if the battery is going to be bad It's going to decay so if you're just occasionally getting a few different mics into something like this My recommendation would be to use one of these There's probably other phantom power injectors on the market Google that in Amazon and I'm sure you'll find one So what I'm going to do got getting all my kit together. I have an XLR to XLR Cable here and what I'm going to do is plug in this cable to the Microphone so I've got the XLR here and then I'm going to go into the P1, okay? so we're just doing this process as best as I can here at my desk and There we go nice secure connection now you're going to go ahead and actually turn on the P1 So we are putting power into the shotgun microphone Now gonna put that down for a second and pick up my zoom H1N field recorder. I'm going to turn on the power on this lovely device Power on booting lovely and now I'm simply going to get my 3.5 To TRS 3. Sorry XLR to 3.5 mil cable Like so and I'm going to go from my XLR from the P1 Let me just grab this up so you can see it I'm now going out of the P1 with that cable and all I need to do now is plug into the zoom Into the microphone line in which I hope you can see in the webcam It's a 3.5 mil connection and boom there we go now in order to verify this is working I just got a message in fact. I'm just going to show you guys again Okay, it's going to say Internal mic now because it's using the microphones at the top and if all works well, we should get a message saying external mic three two one External mic wonderful external in and you know the kind of crude way to Test this is just to kind of look at the level meters and just tap on the microphone a bit And I can see that that's darting up on the zoom H1N The levels as I am doing that So that's it basically how to get your XLR microphone into a zoom H1N field recorder Just to do a very quick recap two things you're going to need to look at one is the cable You're going to want a XLR to 3.5 mil cable and the second thing you're going to need is if you're if you're XLR microphone requires phantom power you can use a phantom power injector so that even if it doesn't have a internal battery pack You can have a way of getting your external power run that's run from the output of the external power injector Into the zoom H1N and you should be able to get audio from that XLR microphone Straight into your zoom H1N and record is on the recorder Hope that video was useful if you'd like to get more videos from me about video audio other subjects Please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel. 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