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Connecting the RC-F82 to your Boom Operator
To begin with, you will need either a professional duplex “boom operator” cable (equipped with a
female XLR headphone feed at the panel end, and standard headphone jack at the operator’s end); or a
standard XLR mic cable equipped with an
XLR to ¼ headphone jack
adapter at the other end.
If you are mixing down to a monaural master LR track, you can plug your boom operator(s) into either
the left or right output marked LINE OUT2/TALKBACK.
If you are mxing down to a 2-track or stereo master, then you would require a custom adapter or Y-
cable to merge the L-R outputs into one combined mono feed.
For most film/video applications recorded with multi-track iso’s, it is customary to only provide a
monaural mixdown for dailies and picture edit, so this is normally not an issue. But if it is, then have a
technician build you an appropriate adapter.
In the event that your output to the boom operator results in audio only coming out of one side of the
headphones, then just use a simple ¼-mono to ¼-inch stereo headphone adapter to solve the problem
for the meantime, until a technician can permanently rewire the boom cable.
If your boom operator(s) need to communicate directly to the soundmixer, their talkback mics can be
plugged in to the XLR inputs marked
RETURN IN
on the back of the Fader unit.
Output to the Boom operator is at line output. You may want to add some sort of inline volume control
or switchable attenuator (such as a -10, -20, -30 pad) if your boom operator prefers to monitor at lower
volume.
