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AV News 194 - November 2013 This connection may be in the connector of the lead, as in Figure 3 above, or a permanent link built into the input socket, as Figure 4 below. Many input sockets are wired with this permanent link built in (there are very good reasons for this, outside the scope of this article) but you can't tell by looking. The next stage of complication is where the unbalanced mic input socket is stereo. Again, you can't tell by looking at it - you must read the instruction book. Normally you will wish to feed the (mono) mic signal to both channels to put it 'centre stage'. In this case you will need a lead wired as Figure 5 with one signal lead connected to both channels, and the other connected to screen as before. This connection will always be in the lead - the socket must be 'free' to accept stereo signals if that is ever wanted. Page 16