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Re: Microtrack 24/96 Review by a user

Subject: Re: Microtrack 24/96 Review by a user
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:53:35 -0700
Henry Howard, you wrote,

>Here's a big bummer - ads for the machine says it records stereo and
>mono - so far, it only records in stereo, the website promises updated
>firmware "in the future" that will allow mono recording, so the 1gig
>cards I have for the machine have only 1:38 capacity instead of 3 hours
>plus. So, when I plug my mono mics into the machine, they sound fine
>while monitoring via headphones, but when I get back to the studio and
>dump them in via the USB cable (which is easy and fast) they appear in
>ProTools as 2 track recordings and sound horrible, like they were
>recorded at -50db or something. But if I delete one of the two tracks,
>the remaining track sounds fine. I find this bizarre.

I remember once a customer brought in a purchased adaptor from a 
single XLR to 3.5mm stereo. It was wired so that pin 2 went to the 
tip (left) and pin 3 went to the ring (right). Yes, this would record 
mono on his DAT, but the channels were out of phase!

If you were to play this 'stereo' pair in mono, you'd get something 
like what you described.

If this is what you have, wire pin 2 to both tip and ring, and pins 1 
and 3 to shield. Then you get the mono mic on both channels, in phase.

-Dan Dugan

p.s. A cable like that would work for recording stereo with an 
AT822--that stereo mic puts left and right on pins 2 and 3 of an XLR.

-dD-


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