LT1010 not recoring Left and Right Channels for individual Mic inputs

[George Miles]

Any assistance anyone could provide on this would be appreciated:

I have a LT1010. I have a mic plugged into the 'Mic 1 <--' connector (standard 3-pronged mic input); and inside the MAudio control panel on the Monitor Mixer tab (specifically the 'H/W in 1/2' mixer input) I show signal coming through the '1' channel only and not the '2'. Then when I play back through my PC's sound port, I can only hear the sound out of one side of the headphones. I also show on my recording software that only one Channel (L or R) is receiving a signal.

Shouldn't each input line on the card output left and right? What am I doing wrong?. The only way I have found to fix this is to use a splitter and split the mic across mic inputs 1 and 2 on the LT1010. Then I hear it in both ears of the headphones.

Thanks,

George

[JA]

Your microphone, along with all of the analog inputs on the 1010lt, are mono. You need to be recording onto a mono track, then you will hear it play back on both sides.

Check out this FAQ.

[tenvolt]

Yes make sure you are recording it as a mono track not stereo as mentioned. If you are having this problem while recording/monitoring as well, in the M-Audio mixer, you can pan each input from left to right. I believe by default input 1 is panned hard left and input 2 is panned hard right because they assume that you are going to use them as a stereo pair, probably false in most cases. In the Delta mixer, pan input 1 to the middle and you will hear it in both ears in your headphones/speakers while recording, but it will record in mono. Then in your software you can pan it wherever you want in your mix. If you have accidentally recorded a mono track to a stereo WAV file, you may be able to switch it to mono in your software, e.g. in Sony Vegas, you can right-click on the take, choose Channel > Left Only or Channel > Right only to make it mono