So, I record almost entirely in mono on my current rigs, Marantz 620 and 661 mk2.
I was running a mixpre-D for certain uses in which I wanted to push audio straight into my Mac, and loved it, now have a mixpre-3 on the way, and it looks like basically even with a single mic going its going to record in stereo, essentially two channels of exactly the same sound that I will then have to combine in software (Audition) into mono. That's not a big deal I guess but it is a useless additional step, seems like it may on rare occasions cause a hiccup or two and.... take up twice as much space on the memory chip.
Have I misunderstood how the machine works?
And is there any reason this isn't solvable with a firmware update if SD decides to change it and make true mono possible?