LuisT Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Hi everybody, i am contacting you because i am in a shoot where we use a sony FX9 (and FX6 as a A cam with no problem) and the problem is the following : We need to put audio in input 1 with Channel 1 and there is literally no option to set it. How to fix this? See the picture below. The first option is greyed out. There is no external option for Channel 1. The DOP can't help and i set on the right of the camera the channel to "ext" and not "mi shoe". I am hoping someone ran into this problem maybe already. Never saw a camera in my life that is litteraly not proposing you options for channel 1... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 I did a 2 FX9 shoot yesterday and used both audio channels. Are you sure you scrolled that audio input page all the way to the top, to reveal the choice for for Ch1 EXT input? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisT Posted April 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Yes, scrolled all the way. No option for Ch1 EXT input at all. Only the MI Shoe is possible for Ch1. I don't understand why. It makes no sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acdave Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 I worked with an FX9 last week with the same issue. The owner had been in contact with Sony about it and said that Sony was working on a remedy. Apparently, it doesn't make a difference. If you set the switches where they should be, you'll get external audio on Channel 1, despite what the menu says. Simple enough to test and my shoot went fine, no complaints from post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungo Posted April 30, 2021 Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 So it is a software bug? Which fw version are you working with? I guess we have the latest version and are working without issues (camera hop to XLR 1/2 and MI Shoe adaptor XLR-K3M to 3/4). Anyway, Sony announced an upgrade for May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisT Posted April 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 @acdave, thanks. So i should try to set it to Ext, no to worry about MI shoe selection and see if i get any signal? In the meantime i saw also that its possible to choose input 1 for Ch3 as well. Which is annoying but can work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisT Posted May 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2021 You were right, it worked like that. even though it makes no sense at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippH Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 Hi, Same issue here, the new fw 2.1 didn't solve the problem. Greets, Philipp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Constantin Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 On 4/29/2021 at 9:20 PM, LuisT said: The DOP can't help Why can’t the DOP help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeheel Posted May 27, 2021 Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 Because we are generally there to tell the DOP how their camera does sound... but you're just trolling, right? I had this same issue on an FX9 last week. It has the weirdest, most non intuitive audio input menu setup I think I've ever seen on a camera, and that's saying something... Cheers, Brent Calkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin c Posted June 21, 2021 Report Share Posted June 21, 2021 Did anyone solve this issue ? I can’t even click the option to change the audio input for ch1. If I press the menu button, it says “cannot proceed” thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontariosound Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 I recently worked on a commercial shoot with a single FX9. Same issue with the Ch1 Shoe being unchangeable in the menu. Set the physical switches to where they should be for 2 channel line level input and I heard proper split track audio on playback. The meters responded to what I was sending during recording as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProSound Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 I work with two people that have FX9 and was able to change it to both channels with no issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 Might be a false unit, because 35 days now with FX9 - no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis Ripley Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 This is an interesting problem. If you get a chance again flip those switches on the side a few times and see if anything changes. I looked at my menu and it looks like that with no options on channel 1. Ch1 is special because it can also be sent to Ch2. Ch2 audio can't be sent to Ch1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Anderson Posted July 28, 2021 Report Share Posted July 28, 2021 Two different FX9's two different shoots same issue. Glad for your comment in particular acdave that there were no complaints from post. Set my 633 to bounce one of the channels when sending tone and both input 1 and 2 on the camera were showing correct (iso) VU's and when listening to camera with headphones my tone was clean both channels. It's just the menu saying shoe input on one and can not proceed to change it to input one. Seems to be some bad code that Sonny Boy needs to fix but the physical switches appear to route sound fine even if it doesn't say so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom E Posted September 18, 2021 Report Share Posted September 18, 2021 Just shot for a week with this camera and had the same issue. Also, I couldn’t adjust levels. The side level dials did nothing. (Everything set to manual, etc.) Don’t think I missed a menu setting, but who knows… just a scratch track, so no worries. Had timecode and slated. But it all sounded good on playback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoBob Posted November 19, 2021 Report Share Posted November 19, 2021 It’s a feature, not a bug! 🙃 The folks noticing the XLR camera audio on CH1 works normaly as long as the hard switches are set to EXT are correct. See my “solution” below 👇 I aslo had this “issue” after an update but when I looked closely at the audio menu I realized we may be missunderstanding what that menu item is doing. That menu item does not change the source of audio CH 1 (only the hard switches on the side of the cam do that). The item is labeled “CH1 MI SHOE INPUT SELECT” which is something you would only change IF you were using the shoe. If you look down 2 settings you see “CH2 MI SHOE INPUT SELECT” which will also be greyed out. This is confusing because in between these settings is “CH2 EXT INPUT SELECT” where you can duplicate CH1 > CH2 if you have the hard switches set to EXT on the side of the cam. Similar to the MI SHOE menu items, this menu item will only change the EXTERNAL input for CH2 and is not a input type selector. You can change inputs 3&4 via these menus between EXT/INT/SHOE/WIRELESS but CH1 and CH2 source types are changed via the hard switches on the side of the body and not in the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Young Posted November 24, 2021 Report Share Posted November 24, 2021 I'm using an fx9 and wonder if anyone can help. I'm using the sony module on the M shoe to get 4 x channels of audio. I've tuned my radio mics to local free frequencies but i'm getting an intermittent loud 'white noise' / static interference. Any thoughts? I'm a film-maker / DP mostly doing my own sound.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex R Posted July 14, 2022 Report Share Posted July 14, 2022 I'm so happy - in an ironic way - that I've found this thread! I have an FX9 that I've shot with for almost a year and suddenly yesterday on a shoot the CH1 input greyed-out "shoe" thing was going on! And I'm on v3 firmware or whatever the most recent 2022 version is. DID ANYONE FIGURE OUT WHAT IS CAUSING THIS?? I've gone through every menu option I can find and nothing - even hard reset of the camera - has fixed this. I guess I"ll call sony and they'll tell me to pay them a fortune to look at it and I'll be without the camera for weeks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Karlsson Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 On 7/14/2022 at 10:03 AM, Alex R said: . DID ANYONE FIGURE OUT WHAT IS CAUSING THIS?? You may want to read the above posts. Especially the one from IdahoBob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 I ran into this yesterday and was freakin similar to above replies, but luckily someone on set knew the camera well and despite what the menu says, i can confirm the hardware switches when set properly at the side of the camera gave me split tracks and meters. Whoa what a weird choice of wording in a menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward chick Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Issue I have been encountering lately with a network camera that has the uni slot adapter installed on fx9, is when ch 1 and ch2 are both set to “wireless” only ch1 Left Identifier tone is bouncing to both channels, no split. SRC receiver is seeing separate channels. Everything is correct at SRC end. If I use a hard wire or outboard mounted receiver I can split channels. Anyone else encountering this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiningo Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 Hi, I've clips from fx9 and i don't understand the tracks , it appears all the HF are on ch1 mixed with the external micro, ch2 seems to bé only the external mic but very low and ch3 seems to be exactly the same than ch1 , and nothing on ch4 .... is that normal? or misconfiguration or bugs of the camera ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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