Why is audition recording the stereo tracks unequally?

I just upgrade to 3.0 from 1.5 and I must say I have been racking my brain for hours trying to figure out all my problems. I found most by scrolling old posts but this one I cant find. After installing the program I opened a beat in the first track of multiview. I tried recording and I was having latency issues so I took the advice that popped up in a message prompting me to switch to ASIO drivers. I opened the audio hardware tab and selected my mic (02s) (samsung C01U). Now, when I record in stereo the volumes dont record evenly. The left ear records just a little bit louder then the right ear. On the bottom where the mic level are the top bar stays a precise amount away from the lower bar (about 2 inches). So when I record, the top level (left ear) records normal and the bottom level (right ear) in considerable lower. Doesn't sound good. I know I could equalize it using effects but I want it to record evenly. Anyone know how to fix this. I have VIA High Def Sound Card (I think...thats what it says under device manager) and windows 7. I was messing with the settings in my ASIO4ALL control panel trying to fix the latency issues so maybe I screwed something up there. What default setting should I put in the boxes in the ASIO4ALL control panel?

Phate008 wrote:
Have I been recording wrong this whole time?
Yes.
Do people record into mono mics often or do most people use stereo mics? Also why would stereo record equally in 1.5 but not in 3.0?
All microphones are essentially mono. If you have two of them closely adjacent but pointing in different directions in one casing (aka a 'stereo' mic), you will get some sort of stereo from them - depending on how good they are. The vast majority of people use mono mics for single voices though - there is no benefit from using a stereo one for this at all. And there is absolutely zero benefit in recording a mono mic in stereo - it just wastes file space, because both channels will contain absolutely identical information. In fact using a stereo mic pair for recording a single voice is counter-productive - you end up using the variable part of the mic's polar pattern on both mics (not so good), and the slightest physical movement of the vocalist shifts the sound in the mix considerably. This is way easier to control with a single mono mic - the only determinant of where it sounds in the mix is the pan control.
The reason you are experiencing a difference has nothing to do with Audition at all, but everything to do with using a different driver. The present driver for your mic only outputs signal on one channel in stereo mode - which is pretty ridiculous; it shouldn't even have a stereo mode! What you should do is select a mono input - which will say something like [01m] on it in Audition, and use that to record, using the pan control to position the sound in the mix.
In a properly set up stereo monitoring system, a mono source wil appear in a single (vurtual) location between the speakers, depending on where the pan control is set. If this doesn't happen on your setup, then you need to fix the acoustic conditions around the speakers so that it does, otherwise you won't have the faintest clue about what your mixes really sound like.
I'm sorry that this all sounds a bit harsh, but I'm afraid that this is the way it is...

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