Problem recording narration with external audio converter

I am recording a narration in iMovie using a nice studio quality mic plugged into an external mic pre/ AD converter.The converter (Apogee Mini-Me) is connected to my macbook pro via USB. I am able to select my mic pre in Preferences/Sound, no problem. The mic is hooked to the right channel of the two channel pre. ( I only need to use a single mic for a narration.) Everything sounds great except the sound only comes out of the right channel during iMovie playback. Is there a way to configure the input so that the single input is recorded and plays back on both channels of the iMovie audio track? I have looked and looked and there is no control panel that allows me to route a single input to both channels. Any ideas? Is there a piece of software that does this?

Connect all of your hardware and open the Audio MIDI Setup app (Utilities folder) to set it up.
You'll see the options for a "2" channel input and options to change a "mono" recording to center the channels to two speakers.

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