Sound only on left channel

Hi,
I'm shooting some video on a JVC GR-DV3 (admittedly old but still does the job!) and am using an Audio Technica ATR 3350, omnidirectional Lavalier condenser microphone as the motors are too noisy for speech using the built-in mics.
When I import the clips into iMovie all the sound is on the left channel, not equally distributed between the two?
Any thoughts or fixes?
JC

I bet the microphone is a mono microphone. When you plug that into a 3.5mm stereo microphone input, all sound is "sent" to the left channel. You need an adapter cable or adapter socket.
http://www.shopwiki.co.uk/_3.5mmStereo+Plug+to+3.5mm+Mono+SocketAdaptor?o=241526279&s=314334&

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