Now I did try to rule out a flaky limiter action and tried it both with the limiter on and off for both channels, with no fix to the level fluctuation. But the HS-P82 channel linked functions are: What do you mean by 'paralleled' input channels? I presume you mean linked? I wasn't explicitly linking the two channels because I wanted to be able to ride the gain separately and only send the primary boom to the mix.

I will do a test with limiter only on channel 2, as well as swapping the Y ends (I have a spare Y cable and will try that one as well). While that is true, I can't recall anyone actually reporting audible trauma to the signal as a result of this practice.Thanks for the fast reply Richard. They will complain that the load impedance is dramatically lower, etc. Now, there are people who will complain about using a simple Y-cable to feed an ordinary mic into TWO 'paralleled' input channels. The editor said he was able to use my safety track 2 after boosting it a bit, but the primary track 1 was pretty much unusable without a tedious dialog editing effort.Д¬ould the weird level fluctuations on channel 1 but not on the same mic on channel 2 via the Y-Connector be due to running phantom power out through channel 1 but not channel 2? Or is this probably something else? Is it a bad idea to do what I'm doing without using a phantom power blocking mic splitter? Am I risking damaging something? BTW, the HD-P2 and R44Pro both had to have phantom power to both boom input jacks or neither, while the HS-P82,allows me to select for each channel and thus I opted to just send it to channel 1 only. I kept getting level fluctuations on track 1 but not on track 2, and really couldn't figure out what the problem was. So far I've had no problem with doing that on an HD-P2, or later on an R44Pro, but I just started using an HS-P82 and have Phantom power on on channel 1 and off on channel 2 (where I'm patching my Y-Connector into the Tascam). I've always used a Y -Connector instead of a pre-mixer to split the feed from a boom condenser microphone to two input channels on my location recorder so I could record it both normal and cut a bit as a safety track in case an actor unexpectedly shouts a line (and I cannot ride the faders fast enough).

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