Audacity Forum

I've been thinking about this, and maybe I've sussed it out a little. My headset mic has a mini plug that looks just like the stereo headphone plug. So maybe for it there are two elements for "stereo" recording? Or maybe they run the same signal back twice or something? Whereas the Samson with the U...

OK, that's not stereo. That's mono. If you record with your mic set to Mono and leave the track that you get out of it panned to the center, the audio will come out of both speakers at an equal level. Hmm, I'll have to try that. It's not what I'm doing now. Does the signal from the mic come out of ...

I'm using standard Windows drivers. Re stereo signal from one mic: I don't know how it works, but it does. :) I get stereo out of my single mic analog (i.e., non-usb) headset too. What I'm trying to do is record spoken audio. I want audio coming out of both earphones. Maybe it's not stereo, but it's...

I'm trying to use my new Samson Q1U microphone in Audacity. I'm kind of a newb, so it's possible I missed a setting somewhere. The problem: I can record using this microphone, but the stereo option doesn't actually give me two equal tracks. The right channel is normal, the left channel is VERY low. ...