Information for teams who video tape the FIRST feed

FIRST General Forum
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When I came back from the competition on Friday I was kind of disappointed when I realized I had a very low sound level on my tapping of the FIRST feed. At first I thought it was a problem with my equipment. However after talking to a member of Rage, I found that he also had problems with low level audio.

The next day I politely asked the A/V person to boost the gain of the audio box, and he did. And the audio on the videotape came out good on Saturday.

I don’t know if this is widespread or just a problem with the UTC regional. However if you’re taping the FIRST feed, it would be a good idea to check the sound with a pair of headphones or a sound meter.

If the sound is too low, just ask him or her to boost the sound gain to get a better audio level.

[Edit] I remember that the audio at BAE was low too but it could be heard if you pumped up the TVs volume to max.

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with most camcorders you can plug in headphones, put them on and check the audio volume and quality while its recording.

3

Our audio at the St. Louis regional wasn’t that great either. It was choppy some times, and other times it was quiet.

4

AND make sure you’ve set the VCR to the correct channel! (I don’t know the correct channel, but we missed a lot of the comp. b/c of this.)

5

Can’t forget to put a tape in either. That was our problem… Still looking for a full tape of the event.
Nate