DSLRs aren’t designed for pro video and one of the important features you give up is the ability to monitor audio. That is, until Christian Sundsdal figured out this DIY work around to monitor audio from his Rode Videomic.
For only $37 in parts, he was able to rig up a jack to monitor audio from any 3.5mm microphone.
รขโฌลI have found one simple workaround that really works.And a bonus with my setup is that you can connect two mics. With my setup, i have a wireless clip-mic, and the videoMic connectedรขโฌยฆ works great, and i can monitor both with headphones.รขโฌย
See a diagram of the setup here.
DSLR headphone setup with Rรยธde VideoMic from christian sundsdal on Vimeo.
Via Cinema5D.
How can you tell how much power you shot to the camera whilst listening to the amplified out from the microphone?
I suppose you can here very high level in the headphones, but low in the camera, right?How to optimize?
If you’re using a magic lantern modified DSLR, you can view the levels as bars at the top of the screen. I recommend using this feature.