Record audio Left channel mono playback

I'm new to Captivate and setting up a microphone for recording audio. Recording equipment is a single microphone into an E-Mu 0404 USB interface. The interface has 2 mic inputs. The mic is plugged into the left channel. Sound is recorded fine, but only plays back on the left channel. How can I get the single channel treated as mono so playback is on both ears?
Thanks

Hi there
Assuming you can do so, perhaps consider a Y connector that makes the mic feed into both channels.
Also, report this to Adobe as I've seen many posts here regarding stereo and only hearing one channel.
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I was just advised that this topic belongs here in the MSDN forums, so moved the topic from the Community. I am not sure that this particular forum is the correct one. If not, please advise where to put this question.
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I have created an application (in Delphi) which uses audio output, but recently discovered that the left channel is missing. There is nothing in my program that would do this.
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Peak: 0
Mute: 0
Volume range: 0% to 100% (-96 dB to 0 dB in steps of 1.5 dB)
Master: 100% (0 dB)
Channel 1 of 2: 100% (0 dB)
Channel 2 of 2: 100% (0 dB)
Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
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Master: 100% (0 dB)
Channel 1 of 2: 100% (0 dB)
Channel 2 of 2: 100% (0 dB)
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Icon path:
Display name:
Grouping parameter: {e82cafd7-7990-453b-945d-3ab7524368ea}
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Channel #2 volume: 1 (0 dB FS)
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Channel 2 of 2: 100% (0 dB)
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