Audacity Forum

i'm using samson q1u. The version of audacity is irrelevant as the situation is the same in other audio applications i use (renoise, windows recording tool and so on...). the problem is therefore unrelated to audacity, but still some of you sound recording geeks here may help I don't get audio in single channel, instead it's the same as described in the first post here - left channel is louder, right channel is weaker. I did overcome the problem using the method you described, recording only from the left channel as mono, but still - if the default record format in recording application is set to stereo and the input signal is mono, then i should have two equal signals on both left and right channels, just as i had when i was using some other cheap mic on Wavelab some time ago. And how do you interpret the panning behaviour i described? the operating system - windows xp.

I expressed myself in a wrong way - my problem seems EXACTLY the same as the one described by the author of this topic, and there seems to be no solution reply, so that's why I posted it here.

I was beggining to suspect it was a hardware malfuction but seeing some other guy having exactly the same issues made me wonder.

Maybe the usb cable is damaged? I'm a noob here.

maybe i should just ask samson's technical support

I still don't understand why on earth you're trying to record in stereo from one (mono) microphone...

In my point of view, there shouldn't even be a stereo option available... sounds more like a driver problem. Search if there's any more recent driver version available.

Instead of recording in stereo and taking just one of the channels, have you tried setting it to mono and record in mono? That should be the correct way of setting it up.

CaveSoundMeister wrote:maybe i should just ask samson's technical support

That's an idea

Instead of recording in stereo and taking just one of the channels, have you tried setting it to mono and record in mono? That should be the correct way of setting it up.

Yes that's exactly what i want, but i don't see such an option anywhere! Somehow samson is transmitting stereo signal to my pc. As i understand it usb microphones have their own a/d converters and they transfer finished product so it's logical that the only thing software can do upon recieving the signal, if this signal is stereo, is to record only one channel (left or right) or both. But it should have been mono in the first place. Something's not going right inside the mic. What i find curious is that another user had the same problem as me, it suggests that i may be doing something wrong.

Like I said before it might be a driver issue... Search the manufacturer website for an update or contact them.

On Audacity if you go to Preferences -> Devices -> Recording -> Channels don't you get a "1 (mono)" option on the drop down menu?

I'm not a windows user so I can't really help with setting it to mono on windows or other apps, but try looking in the control panel.