GoPro Dual Mic?

[Arctic Pride]

Has anyone tried running dual Mic's with a splitter off their go pro, will it recognize both signals?

 

[Trinith]

Has anyone tried running dual Mic's with a splitter off their go pro, will it recognize both signals?

I've heard of it being done. It wouldn't be 2 signals though, after the connection it would be 1 signal with a lot of input. Might have to watch the impedance of the mics though, resistance does strange things depending on how it's hooked up.

 

[Arctic Pride]

Gotcha, I might give this a go. I've wanted to try mic'ing a car's engine bay while having a mic in the cabin for in car audio.

 

[Trinith]

It's probably as simple as hooking up the proper Y adapter to the two mics, but you might want to invest some time with google before spending money. You'll find a whole lot more information there than here on something like this.

 

[Arctic Pride]

nahh, all i needed was another person to think it may be possible to give it a go

 

[CBRHoonigan]

why would this be even needed? just seems like its creating a headache for youeself

 

[Trinith]

why would this be even needed? just seems like its creating a headache for youeself

Because it could be cool and he wants to. I do a lot of things that are difficult simply because they're fun, or neat. The end result of a recent farkling mission is unlimited power for my camera and the ability to charge practically anything I'll ever need on a ride, all without the worry of accidentally draining the battery. Necessary? Not really. Useful? Absolutely. Difficult? Surprisingly so.

 

[CBRHoonigan]

haha fair enough each to their own, but isnt he on about a mic and not a power cable?

 

[Arctic Pride]

So I did do some googleing and found one guy who has done this successfully on a hero2 and it came out exactly how I was thinking, will likely need some post process level adjustments but still cool either way!

check it out he gets exhaust and intake in the same clip

 

[Stephen Bailey]

What you can do is get a left right channel splitter, and run each signal as a separate channel. As far as I know, the mic you're using is going to push a mono signal anyway, so you might as well take advantage of two channels. That also allows you adjust each channel's volume in post, and then you can populate both channels to stereo after. Might be more work than you're after, but that's what I would do, I think.

I'm a brand new noobie (This is my first post, just so you're aware). I've got 3 driftHDs and two will be mic'd (one on me in the helmet, and one closer to my V4's exhaust), and this is similar to how I'll be editing my videos.

 

[Trinith]

haha fair enough each to their own, but isnt he on about a mic and not a power cable?

That's irrelevant to your original question. It doesn't matter if it's a mic, a power cable, or an inflatable sex sheep. Doing something different and/or difficult is half the fun.

What you can do is get a left right channel splitter, and run each signal as a separate channel. As far as I know, the mic you're using is going to push a mono signal anyway, so you might as well take advantage of two channels. That also allows you adjust each channel's volume in post, and then you can populate both channels to stereo after. Might be more work than you're after, but that's what I would do, I think.

I sure as hell wouldn't know where to start, but that would be a pretty simple way (as far as post-processing goes) to deal with the levels.

 

[CBRHoonigan]

That evo sounds diesel aha

 

[Arctic Pride]

noooww you see...or hear rather...

 

[VlotoMog]

If you are talking about a headphone splitter it will definantly pick up both signals but probably be a bit weaker on both mics. Since you share the same input the mics are basically wired in parallel meaning the resistance is cut in half...I dont know if that would do the quality any good...but sure as hell that it works