Hi all,
A friend of mine films concerts (open, handheld at stagelip) with a Panasonic HPX170. It has a built-in stereo mic and 2 x XLR with P48.
Now she bought a Rode NTG-1 shotgun, which is mono.
AFAIK, when connecting the mic to one XLR jack, the camera splits the signal to both channels, to emulate some kind of stereo.
I told her that she the sound will still just be mono, and that it was a bad idea to go for the NTG-1. But she is pretty clueless about the difference.
To rectify the mistake, is it a good idea to pick up another NTG-1 and run two mono shotguns on one camera to achieve stereo?
In that case, how should they be mounted? ORTF on a bar, or just pointed straight forward?
Or is it a dumb idea to use shotguns for concert recordings in the first place?
If I lend her my AT853's, would they give a better stereo image and overall sound, bar mounted on the camera?