Connecting Mics and High-Pitched Voices?

Question from Broomall, PA:

Now that I have installed two firewire cards I have two Panasonic DV cameras that I want to use. I hooked one up and it recognized it but when I just use the camera no sound comes out. So I hooked the mic to the camera in the external mic port and now I have Mickey Mouse voices. Do you have any instruction on how to correctly connect a microphone to Visual Communicator.

-Good job connecting mic to camera, as this is the preferred method (compared to connecting the mic to the PC soundcard).  The mickey mouse or chipmunk voices is an easy fix.  Your camera needs to be set at 16-bit audio, not 12-bit which it probably is right now.  My Training DVD Vol. 1 covers setting up your studio, and I devoted an entire chapter to microphones.

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