On the back of the control box, (if it were on mounted on your hotshoe) facing the shooter, is a LED power light and a mic gain control. My PortaMic PRO came with 3 different cables, a double male XLR to 1/8th' unbalanced stereo cable, a 1/8th to 1/8th inch cable which would go from the control box's stereo out to your camcorders input, and a double male XLR to a 6 pin line level balanced stereo out cable which connects into the side of the PortaMic control box. You then slide the PortaMic PRO into the hot shoe or on the stand. The bottom of the PortaMic PRO holds the 9v battery that goes in, as you would put batteries in any remote. In addition, the bottom of the shoe also includes a standard 1/4' threaded socket should you want to mount the PortaMic PRO on another stand or tripod. So having extra batteries with you on an extended shoot would be the smart thing to do.īeneath the control module is a metal shoe mount, which fit smoothly on my camcorder's hot shoe.

Holophone's PortaMic PRO Surround Microphone makes that fantasy a reality by incorporating 5.1 discreet microphones within one egg-shaped sturdy plastic container mounted on its own control box.Ī single 9-volt battery provides about 3 hours of burn time, In the past, in order to achieve true 6 discreet channel audio, one would need to have at least six separate mics, stands or booms, their mixer and probably another couple of microphones to 'walk the audio' from one channel to another like you would pan a camcorder when following an actor. On top the tremendous growth and wave of high-end home theaters systems that have pervaded our domiciles for several years, it is only a reasonable expectation that capturing and editing in full 5.1 surround sound should be part of the tsunami surge of 3D camcorders and televisions headed our way. Holophone's PortaMic PRO Surround Microphone Holophone's PortaMic PRO 5.1 Surround Microphone - SurCode for Dolby Pro Logic II software

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