Recording Voiceover, Sennheiser 815S-X and M-Audio Fast Track Mono Only

Hi- I just got the above mic and amp, to do some voiceovers. I have just been having a go, but can only get it to record on one channel, ie it plays back through the left headphone only.
Can I simply record in stereo, am I missing something obvious here? Please help.
Many thanks
Ed

Ed,
Actually, right now it is stereo. It's just that you only have sound on one of the two stereo channels.
What you want to do is to convert the stereo track to a mono track. That way when iMovie plays it back the sound (the same sound) will com out of both left and right speakers.
One way to do it is to choose Share>QuickTime and pick Expert Settings from the dropdown menu. When you click Share you'll be presented with more options.
Choose Sound to AIFF from the Export dropdown menu and 44.1 kHz Mono from the Use dropdown menu.
Click Save and then import the resulting file back into iMovie.
Matt

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