Mono/Stereo question

Alright guys I've just bought a Zoom 1204 fx unit. On the front panel it has a jack input for a mic which is for the onboard vocoder which is cool. At the back there are two inputs of which the left channel acts as the carrier for the Vocoder. My question is this - if I use a mono jack to xlr lead for the mic input at the front will the output be in mono or stereo? The outputs are stereo incidentally (two jack outs). I hope that makes sense cheers.

Here's the front.

Here's the back.

This is the cable I wanna get.

6.35mm Mono Jack Plug to XLR Socket Microphone Cable 2m

or should I be getting this?

Ex-Pro XLR Cable (Socket) to 3.5mm Jack (Stereo Jack) - Black 2m

seems like since it's a mono in that any output might be in both channels (r/L) but will have a mono signal. Unless you also have some stereo delay, or reverb going on there. oR if the vocoder carrier is stereo. I've never seen that though.

it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one.

Thanks guys. I just had this fear that the output would default to the left channel or something weird like that lol.

some reverb will liven that saxstep rite up.

  On 8/1/2011 at 8:26 PM, ryanmcallister said:

it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one.

not really true. The third wire is used to cancel out electrical interference. It carries an extra channel of the same audio, which is inverted, and used as control to remove noise from the signal if your mixer supports that.

That's what balanced means.

:p

i think you'll always have signal on both output channels, if it's a stereo signal or not, it depends on the reverb program or whatever you've chosen...

  On 8/2/2011 at 10:11 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

  On 8/1/2011 at 8:26 PM, ryanmcallister said:

it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one.

 

not really true. The third wire is used to cancel out electrical interference. It carries an extra channel of the same audio, which is inverted, and used as control to remove noise from the signal if your mixer supports that.

 

That's what balanced means.

 

:p

i figured someone was gonna call me on that. i'm aware of balanced/unbalanced. i was just keeping my response limited to the mono/stereo question. but ya you are right.