I'm working in XTC mode. I have all of my ASIO sources routed to two 'switch it' modules which are mixed by a 'mix 2 s' module and sent into my ASIO Dest for recording. If I have a mono Source routed to my DAW, then it records the audio track in mono (which is what I want). The problem is that all of the 'switch it' inputs are stereo. So if I route the track out of my DAW in mono, it only plays through one speaker. So what I've been doing is routing it out of my DAW in stereo, so that it comes through both speakers. If I want to keep the sound mono, will doing it this way ruin my mix? I experimented with adding a Stereo Expander module to the track and setting it to Mono. This seems to sound more like a true mono signal. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Chisel
Stereo vs mono
Hi Chisel,
There shouldn't really ever be an issue working with mono tracks as part of a stereo mix. Ideally you want to let one of your mixers do the work for you. If for some reason you have 2 identical mono tracks on a mixers' stereo pair, they should both be panned dead center, not L & R to achieve 2 mono signals.
As for monitoring mono tracks in stereo, the above pretty much covers it apart from telling you how we work, which is monitoring our mixes via Scope's control room, fed by:- an STM mixer's 'mix' out, a stereo asio source (for the cubase mix), a wav source (for Soundforge & listening to music) & a Vdat (for monitoring an 8 track tape). We then just switch between these 4 different control room input sources depending on what we're monitoring. For us that covers almost every monitoring situation we would need.
There shouldn't really ever be an issue working with mono tracks as part of a stereo mix. Ideally you want to let one of your mixers do the work for you. If for some reason you have 2 identical mono tracks on a mixers' stereo pair, they should both be panned dead center, not L & R to achieve 2 mono signals.
As for monitoring mono tracks in stereo, the above pretty much covers it apart from telling you how we work, which is monitoring our mixes via Scope's control room, fed by:- an STM mixer's 'mix' out, a stereo asio source (for the cubase mix), a wav source (for Soundforge & listening to music) & a Vdat (for monitoring an 8 track tape). We then just switch between these 4 different control room input sources depending on what we're monitoring. For us that covers almost every monitoring situation we would need.