Thanks, Rob; I know about the formats thing, but am essentially after getting more control over the sound recording aspects, which is where I suffer most in production. A large part of what worries me is that I now seem to be getting a lot of interest from smaller-budget broadcasters alongside the Caravan Channel series of half-hour shows on Sky 181, and these like the style and visual content of what I do, but have problems with sound, which my analysis indicates is more about what I'm recording than what I'm getting out of the edit.

I'd been meaning to write to you about this aspect anyway, as in the Sock - what's the best way of putting together on-location sound on a very mean budget? Essentially, I presently need to take in a couple of mikes and spread them as mono over the two tracks . . . for camera reasons with the XL1s, I just need to result in two mixed channels!

Ta in anticipation!

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