Fw 410, Luna Microphones And Mono, Noob Problem Options

[uvbnskoold]

Hey there, I'm hoping you guys/gals can help me out.

I have a firewire 410 and 2 m-audio luna microphones, hooked up to my powermac g5. If I'm using one mike, and when I listen via headphones/speakers I hear stereo sound. When I record and playback, it goes single channel (and I notice when I look at the signal monitor in say, Garageband, it also confirms single channel, depending on which mike input I have going at the time). My dillemma is that I want to be able to control this... but mostly I only want to have to use one mike to get stero sound. 'Can' I set it up so that one microphone will record in stereo, or am I doomed to 'have' to use two mikes to get a recording stereo sound? I'm pretty sure I should't have to use 2, but as I noted in my title... I'm a noob and I need some help.

Thanks!

Uvee

[straydog]

It is not clear to me why you would want to record stereo with one mic anyway (same input-> same sound on both channels), but if this is what you're looking for you can always copy+paste your mono track to two mono tracks or one stereo track, and then make the sound split (sound different on each channel) using panning, reverb and equalizing (quite a delicate process). Although even then it is better to actually play and record the same track twice... If you give us more info on what you intend to do perhaps we can be more helpful in our suggestions...