Need Audio help! Interview audio won't play out to tape.

My voiceover and Soundtrack audio sounds great, but my interviews sound terrible when I play out to DV to record to the camera.
I checked the item properties and noticed that all the good audio is at 44.1khz while the "bad" audio is at 48khz.
What can I do to make this play out?
Thanks!

Hi(Bonjour)!
What is the sequence's audio format? It should be 48 kHz as it's standard in video editing software.
Did you capture audio interview from camcorder? What is the audio sampling format in audio menu? (32 or 48 kHz, 12 or 16 bit?)
The audio mixdown render may resolve this problem but it's always a good thing to resample each audio file to match the sequence sample rate:48 kHz.
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