[LAU] 3.5mm microphone into audio interface?

Alf Haakon Pietruszka Lund alf at mellomrommet.no
Sun Apr 11 16:30:51 CEST 2021


On 11.04.2021 15:40, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:57:31PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

(snip)

>> I've used that microphone just once to record my voice speaking.  Listening
>> back to that record, well, no, I couldn't say if it's stereo or mono.
> 
> So you don't know, or even care, if your mic requires 1 or 2 channels,
> or what polar response it might have.
> 
> You don't understand that not the microphone, but the software determines
> the number of channels in a file.
> 
> Listening to a mono file you imagine it's stereo.
> 
> And you seriously want to do audio engineering ??
> 
> Then please start learning the basics before you try to do anything else,
> or waste other people's time.

Oh don't be so hard on him. We all have to start somewhere and none of 
us are required to spend any time at all reading (or responding to) 
questions on this list.

I don't see why lack of knowledge should be insulting to anyone.

Alf


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