will not record in stereo

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will not record in stereo

Post by oucur12 » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:19 am

I have checked wires, program set in stereo all the way. Cords are stereo but can only connect from headphone to mic. Headphones show stereo sounds comming out of stereo but Audacity shows the same pattern in both channels and replay is in mono. Any suggestions?

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Re: will not record in stereo

Post by kozikowski » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:28 am

<<<Any suggestions?>>>

Sure. You are a candidate for one of the many USB sound cards we reviewed.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

You are, almost without doubt, trying to smash a powerful, line-level, Stereo signal into the Mic-In of your laptop which is expecting a tiny, delicate, Mono signal.

You can get a real Stereo Line-In on your large deskside PC or almost any Mac, but not a Windows laptop.

Koz

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