Can’t hear vocal tracks when uploaded to youtube on mobile

[Russell Anway]

Yes. Thank you so much for your thorough response. You are a champ.

I am in fact using an xlr to xlr cable (the reason I soldered it was to put a right angled connection on the end). But now that I know the issue isn’t in premiere or media encoder it’s going to be much easier to figure out.

Thanks again.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

If you’re using an XLR to XLR, then the problem is definitely something wrong with the zoom. Which model do you have? I can read through the manual and look for a setting that might cause this.

[Russell Anway]

It’s an h4n. I have it plugged into the “1” jack, record to “stereo,” press the 1 on the face and record it to a .wav file at 48khz. Though I’m sure there are untold numbers of things in there I’m not aware of.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Yeah, that’s what’s causing the problem. By selecting “stereo” as the record option you’re telling the Zoom that the XLR is a stereo source (which it isn’t, it’s a balanced sorce.) If, on the other hand, you select “Mono” you’ll probably get audio that defaults to playing out of the left speaker only, which you’ll have to fix the same way you have to fix the audio you have now, ether the fill left effect or modify > audio channels.

I’ll take a look through the manual and see if there’s a way to record a single mono channel.

[Russell Anway]

This is starting to make sense to me now. I read the manual when I got the zoom and I seem to recall something about recording stereo audio with a mic in front of and behind the band. I had an xl2 back in the day and it said “stereo” on the on-board mic and I somehow got it into my head that shotgun mics record stereo audio. Though I just looked at the me66 on b and h and it obviously doesn’t say anything about that.

This is making me think of all the audio I’ve recorded wrong (all of it).

At any rate. Thank you very much for helping me. You have been exceedingly patient!

[Elli Morris]

Thank you! I couldn’t figure out why this happened. And wasn’t going to pay $199 for a plugin for phase correction. Took me a moment to find “Fill left” but there it was, under the audio effects. And now the iPad audio is fixed!

[Paul Godard]

Thank you JM… I was happy to find that solution and also appreciated reading your explanation.
As I was on FCPx, I had to update your solution a bit but it worked… BUT

THE BACKGROUND…
I have recorded some interviews with a shotgun Sennheiser connected to my Nikon D800 via an home made XLR to stereo jack… working fine so far except a little background noise.
I realised that although the sound plays perfectly well on distant stereo speakers… it becomes bad or silent on smaller device like my cellphone Note 4… then I discover a problem of phase cancellation.
Following the very easy solution that FCPx offers, by ticking phase left or right only in the gain filter… the phase cancellation problem is solved.

THE NEW PROBLEM
The problem is that the sound is now by far too low to hear, although the meters seem unchanged. If I export the video, the sound is still too low.
In order to have the correct voice, I need to push up the gain by at least 8… but then the meters often go in the red.
Another issue is that for some voices, doing the phase left seem to reduce the sound quality.

What is the best way to go around that?

Paul Godard – Soul Photography

[Jill Kaman]

I had this problem with a video I did in February. This is how I fixed it:

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/stereo-to-dual-mono-premiere-pro/

The only problem is that you have to remember to do it before you start editing your audio. Any changes will not be updated in your timeline.

[Katerina Laraana]

Hello:) I just found this issue and wanted to ask, in what program can I make this ‘flip left’? I edited my video in iMovie. What are the actual steps I have to make to correct this? Thank you, Katerina

[Katerina Laraana]

Hello:)
You have been very helpful and I just read the whole conversation, but I’m an audio amateur;)…and wanted to know, if there is a way for me to have the same problem fixed in iMovie? I already edited the whole video, the voiceover was recorded with Audio Technica ( ATW-R1700) Digital 2.4 GHz,that was plugged straight to my Canon 5D, and wireless mic was on me. I don’t know how and where to flip this ‘fill left’ and in what program? Does that mean I would have to edit my video again in another program?? :-O
Or is there another easier way?

Also, What do I have to change in the settings in the future, to not have this problem again?

Thank you so so much for your response.

Katerina