I use a Canon GL2 and i just bough the Ma-300 audo adapter that hooks onto the accessorie shoe ontop, and i also bought the Azden SGM 1X shotgun mic. Awesome. So, when i hook up the mic to the adapter, you have a choice of hooking it up to either L or R. Depending on which hookup you use, it only comes out of that speaker on the TV or wutever you're using...it sux! i want it to be in both speakers or 'stereo' i think it's called. Can anyone possibly help?

you either have to buy an XLR adapter that allows you to feed the one signal onto both stereo channels.

or in an editing program, pan you audio to mid.

pan it to mid? could you explain more, i'm lost. I use Final Cut Express, if that helps at all.

also, buyinganother adapter isn't an option because the GL2 only comes with ONE XLR adapter-and that's the one i have.

There's an option on the GL2 to record mono, I believe.

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GL2 only comes with ONE XLR adapter-and that's the one i have.

No it's the only one that's an official accessory made by Canon. A company called Beachtek makes XLR adapters for the GL2/XL2 that actually have phantom power and are generally just a lot better.

What he means by "pan to mid" is record the audio on the left channel, then pan it to the middle (left and right) in post. I'd explore the mono recording function though on the GL2 to eliminate the hassle. If I had my manual right next to me I'd look it up for you...but no. I just got my wisdom teeth out and I'm not feeling up to moving. At all.

I just checked my own GL2 and there is no setting for recording mono that I've seen.

From what I know the SGM 1X is a mono mic. that's why your only getting sound on one channel. Your options are either to get a female xlr jack to 2 male jacks and plug those in to your L & R channels, or plug into the L jack and record like that. When your in post, assuming your using Premiere use the fill right plug-in/effect on your audio. This will fill the right track with anything coming from the left track so that it plays your mono recording in stereo.

Yep, the SGM-1X is a mono mic. Clearly any solution you use won't give you stereo sound, just replicate the mono in the other channel. You can either pan to mid in post or just duplicate the track and put it on the left (or right, depending on where you originally recorded it). Either of these options costs nothing assuming you already have a reasonable NLE.

In FCE, unpair the stereo audio, delete the empty track (left or right), then copy and paste the track with sound alongside itself. Pair them and voila.

I see i see. Well i just ordered a BeachTek adapter, lol, and i guess i didn't really need it. But i guess in the future, it will be nice to have.