Mono-LP4?

[Levanel]

Probably a no-brainer but is this possible? I know you can record in mono in SP mode (double the time for a 74-min MD) but what about in LP mode? I have an N10.

[Strungup]

Probably a no-brainer but is this possible? I know you can record in mono in SP mode (double the time for a 74-min MD) but what about in LP mode? I have an N10.

A BIG no Brainer ,. dude only if you use a stereo to MONO adapter , but there is no point LP4is just its highest compression mode , it wont get any longer

[greenmachine]

LP4 uses some form of channel narrowing anyway, so it's neither full stereo nor mono but something in between.

[Qwakrz]

LP2 and LP4 use joint stereo recording which is basically a mono signal and a difference signal recorded on the 2 channels. This way they have more bits to play around with because 80-90% of music is mono with a small amount of difference between the channels and encoding a mono signal and difference signal uses the few bits there are more efficiently than recording 2 seperate channels.

If you record in mono in LP4 mode you gain very little over stereo because of this MS encoding, you definatly wont gain any extra recording time.

Dont try what some people did on SP recordings and record 2 different sources on the left and right channels. SP uses 2 channel recording (i.e. one channel records Left and one Right signals) unlike LP2 and LP4 and you will end up with very very poor quality recordings as there is no relationship between the channels for the recorder to save bits on.