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Is making a good-sounding mono track harder?
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Shiranui
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 01:39:30
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I dunno if many people on this forum have tried mixing down to mono, but if you have, is it more difficult to get the mix right than with stereo?
It seems to me that stereo makes it slightly easier to keep different sounds separate because you can give them all slightly different positions on the soundstage. |
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Alien Bug
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 01:56
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mudpeople
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 02:23
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I really like breaking stereo audio into 2 mono channels and panning and leveling everything individually, Reaper makes it easy as hell, right click-item settings-mono (left, right, mix or whatever) and it doesnt even change the source.
Stereo audio is essentially 2 mono channels stuck together, so if you wanted to say, hard pan the channels left and right, or lower ones level, its not really possible.
Also I like the idea of keeping the left and right stereo channels away from each other until they're transmitted through air into ears. Idk if its even really an issue, I just dont like teh idea 
If you took 2 stereo channels and hard panned tehm left and right, theres still teh second channel there, now its all fuzzled up with the center of the stereo field and who knows whats going on
I found this wiki page enlightening;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound
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Shiranui
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 04:50
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On 2011-09-09 01:56, Alien Bug wrote:
no no no, mono signal is more easy to mix in stereo stage because there is more space for mono tracks than for full stereo signal
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You completely misunderstood me. I was asking if it was harder to mix down to mono than to stereo. |
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TimeTraveller
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 05:08
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You will always loose something from the stereo image (the side signals), this is normal. It's nice to check though how it sounds or if it sounds passable for you.
Actually nowadays the mono compatibility is not anymore of any big importance if you don't generate sound for radio, tv or vinyl.
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mudpeople
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 05:59
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AH youre wondering about entire tracks in mono I imagine that getting the same feel of stereo does take some extra work but I don't imagine it would be too difficult
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makus
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Posted : Sep 9, 2011 10:11
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On 2011-09-09 01:39:30, Shiranui wrote:
I dunno if many people on this forum have tried mixing down to mono, but if you have, is it more difficult to get the mix right than with stereo?
It seems to me that stereo makes it slightly easier to keep different sounds separate because you can give them all slightly different positions on the soundstage.
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It is especially if u have lots of stuff going on in the track.
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