My question for everyone w/ any experience (opinions) When you mix a song in a DAW do you keep the tracks mono or create stereo single tracks? I have been mixing w/ all stereo tracks by creating stereo image wave files. So basically I go through all the tracks of the song make them stereo mixdowns and some light processing. Then I make a new template for the mixdon and enter in the stereo tracks accordingly. I feel that when I have these stereo files I can achieve more creative panning of the tracks.
So, I guess my real question is your opinions on this approach. Pros & Cons, cuz its sounding good this way for me. . Sometimes keeping some tracks mono and making some stereo sounds good too, like clearer/spacial. Any feed back on this would be greatly appreciated.
kind regards to all
jer 8-)
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It really depends on the arrangement and instrumentation. I typ
It really depends on the arrangement and instrumentation. I typically record key elements with a stereo pair anyway, so there is no need to induce a stereo track from a mono. Sometimes I leave the two stereo mics on separate mono tracks. It might be just in my head, but I think this gives me more panning control; I can adjust the stereo width and its direction of the track that way. With a stereo channel the single pan knob the width seems harder to control on my DAW. But Like I said maybe it’s all in my head.
However if the instrument is not key, I tend to make it mono. This is for tracks that really don’t need space around them, or ones that I want to appear directionless or from a specific point in the stereo field.
But in the end, there are no real hard and fast rules for me, I just mess about until the sound makes me smile.
thanks for feedback Yeah I just experiment too. Thats why I had
thanks for feedback
Yeah I just experiment too. Thats why I had to post this question about mixing. Some songs just have a narrow width to the PAN L AND R. Then an engineer would want to, say, increase the stereo field w/ Stereo Imagining. I find better results by recording and mic placement, add in natural reverbs somewhat. That way I get a natural sounding room or not. Trying to find a landscape for the song is really hard. Well thnx for the reply its makes a lotta sense. :D
I posted this once before and I never determined conclusively, b
I posted this once before and I never determined conclusively, but as memory serves, at least one application (Nuendo) requires that you record monaural source material on stereo tracks in order to get stereo-ization out of stereo effects. In other words, if you recorded a guitar track with a single mic to a mono track and applied reverb in sometime afterward, the reverb would be entirely monaural as well. To create a stereo track and record mono information to it, however--identical information in both Left and Right channels--would let you use stereo effects to their full potential.
Barring this, though, to ever record stereo sources as hard-L/R stereo tracks must require tremendous forsight and I don't see a huge benefit.
Actually in Nuendo you can have choice with most effects to make
Actually in Nuendo you can have choice with most effects to make it stereo or mono, when you mono tracks inserts that is.