And this evening I have mostly been putting together an audio splitter box.
A what?
It has three stereo jack sockets, two linked directly and the third linked through resistors (1000 ohm on the left and right and 100 ohm on the ground/shield)
What's it for John?
The linked jacks go to the headphone socket of my Tascam DR-05 and my headphones, that way I can "listen" to my Tascam recorder. The jack with the resistors goes to the mic input in my camera, that way the camera receives (and can record in sync) an audio sent from the Tascam but at a much reduced level to the headphone signal.
Net result - monitored audio using the higher quality stereo microphones on my Tascam (or further mics/lavs/etc plugged into the recorder) and the potential to record both on the camera in sync and as a separate audio file.
I can also mount the recorder remote of the camera (closer to the sound source) and send an amplified signal back to the splitter through a jack extension lead and listen to it, and record it at a reasonable level, at the camera. 
How cool is that?
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