"Craig Busch" <clbusch@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:3F3872AB.A9CE6E27@earthlink.net...

> I am going to be videotaping and using a lav mike. The lav mike is mono

> output. The camera I will be using is stereo mic input. The lav mic is

> 1/8 jack output and the camera is a 3 chip with a 1/8 stereo input. So

> I am recording on the left track only.

> I bought an adapter at Radio Shack which changes the mono output to

> stereo or two track output. So it records onto both tracks now-(the

> same thing.)

> I am just doing some tests now. It seems to work. My thoughts were that

> two tracks-even though mono- would be better than one. Does this sound

> ok or ....... ?

> Any thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated.

The other posters had good points. BTW, on most cameras

I know of, putting a mono mic plug into a stereo jack causes the

camera to record the same signal on both tracks for dual-channel

mono (no adapters needed...).

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