[Greg Cunningham]

Now I am confused again…

I contacted the guy I bought it from and he told me this:

“But just want to let you know that the cable you bought from me is a mono cable. 3pin XLR Mic’s are all mono mics.

It’s the camcorder itself that takes the mono signal from the mic and splits it into left and right channels.

However, it doesn’t seem to me that you are running the cable directly into the camera mic input.”

The only relevant part of that is “the cable you bought from me is a mono cable.” When I said that It was indeed stereo, that was off something I misread on the auction. Are there such things as mono and stereo cables? Now I’m not sure if I’ve messed up the whole concept.

I bought it from an auction on ebay, you can look at it here and tell me what you think:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220446230677&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BIN_IT&refitem=220421780640&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%26itu%3DUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4

Thank you so much,

Greg

[Greg Cunningham]

Ty, you are absolutely right; I just checked the specs on the cable and it’s for stereo recording. I had no idea the cable itself had anything to do with it. I’ll look into getting something else…

In the mean time, does the stereo cable distort the sound I am getting? ie, should the one channel of sound I get be of the same quality as what I’m hearing when I record?

Thanks again,

Greg

[Greg Cunningham]

Thanks for for helping me out guys-

So I had a mini breakthrough when I reflected on the last thing you said Peter, to take one channel and pan it in the center…

I had heard that before, and was about to say how it’s weird that each audio signal I get comes in panned in the center already, so when I delete one everything sounds fine. DUH! I panned each from -1 to 1, and now the signal is a lot clearer and sounds like when I recorded it.

However, that does not solve everything. Some of the audio I get sounds fine the way it’s imported on both tracks, while at other points of the recording it suddenly goes back into the ‘signal cancellation’ sound, where everything is fuzzy and distant sounding. Also, the audio still sounds better with one track panned in the middle than two at each end.

Ty, the GL2 offers no phantom power to microphones. On the other hand, I think this is on the right track:

“More likely, what’s going on is that the connectors are not wired properly to bridge a mono mic to two inputs.”

However, I don’t quite understand what this means:

“To do that, the #2 pin of the female XLR needs to be connected to both the tip and the ring of the 1/8″ TRS plug that goes into the camera. That way, both inputs get fed the same signal properly.”

Are you basically saying I have a faulty xlr to mini cable? That could definitely be the problem, since this has only been happening since I started using that cable.

Also, is FCP importing my audio tracks correctly? When I record with a mono mic on L/R, should it come in as 2 tracks, each panned to the center?