On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:15:07 +0200, "Dave" wrote:

>I had this problem with a Sony VX-2000 I had to work recently (and will have
>to work again for the next couple of weeks). This is a low budget
>production, so they use their own in-house camera, the Sony VX-2000. I have
>to feed audio to this guy, from my 442. I will be recording dialogues,
>interviews and ambient sound on various locations, using different mics as
>the situations require (lav, boom, handheld). Now, they have a Beachtek
>adapter to feed XLR inputs to the camera's minijack. The problem is that the
>two channels (used for separate mics) are not perfectly separated and a bit
>of channel 1 goes into channel 2 (and vice-versa). Is this a known issue of
>the camera? Is it an issue of the beachtek adaptor? Or, is this particular
>camera damaged? Can I or the cameraman do something about it?

I doubt that it is the camera (other than for possibly a small
amount of cross-talk, not enough to seriously degrade
stereo separation...). I would suspect cross-talk in the
adapter...