Canon 7D & T2i Auto Gain Control Kill With an iPod.

I tried this trick on my canon T2i/550D but it didn’t work. The result was the tone along with my voice in the same channel (the left one), the right channel was clean, nothing in it. Don’t know if I did something wrong, but it doesn’t work.

Shouldn’t something like this be a Sticky in the Audio Solutions or 7D forum?

I wonder if you can use a 20 hrz tone to kill the auto gain. That way all you need to do in premiere is just clip 20hrs and lower and you have stereo.

Very nice. But, how does one make this tone??

Where emergency tone to download?

Not to be snarky, but for a video devoted to decent audio, the soundtrack on this video has to be one of the most annoying of recent memory. Do me a favor and drop the crummy techno music and oddball EQ effects. Don’t dump that off camera recorder just yet, son….

Woah!

http://www.cined.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11866

Wow, this is very old news!

Love the solution, thanks for sharing. Will try it out as a solution for certain situations.

Keep in mind, however, for those of you who are looking for professional quality audio, it doesn’t mean the 7D is going to give you that even without AGC kicking in. Using a dual system is a true pain in the ass if you’re a one man band, but recording to a separate recorder with mixer is going to blow away any audio you’ll get with a 7D, even with this fix.

Thanks a million, or should I say the 3 bills I was about to drop for a H4n!

great find Edd. thanks for posting.

How do you do this in FCP or Sony Vegas?

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You can get a splitter from monoprice.com for .78 + shipping

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wtf I ‘m speaking about … no need for sync …. hahaha

great idea !!! JJW ( very good idea for the time code to ! I’m pretty sure you can do the same with an Ipodtouch or an iphone and have a video playing with the time code for easy sync ;) ??

This is such a great hack, thank you!

sick job. you are smart

Nice work. I’m gonna try that but instead of an emergency tone I’m gonna sent time code to one channel.

this is a genius solution. Mad props for your work around.