Mono

[music]

I hear alot of talk about monitoring in mono. What would be the best way to do it using my DAW Digi HD.

Thanks,

Keith

[music]

I guess what I'm saying is, should I just turn off one speaker and put it in the middle of my desk and listen to the mixes that way? Do I pan everything in the middle? I can see how this would be a good tool to check out where everything lives. I am just trying to figure the best way to get the frequencies living together well in mono then take it out to a stereo mix once I've found a happy balance. I have experimented with this a little bit already. I just wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions on how to do this properly and what is the most efficient way to go about it.

Thanks,

Any advice appreciated.

[bassmac]

I use Waves S1 on my master fader (width set to 0)

Bypassing and un-bypassing makes speedy A/Bing

[zimv20]

don't drop a channel, you want to sum them. i don't suppose you've got any gear w/ a mono button?

if not, what about creating a mono master track in PT? i've never tried it, but i suppose that should work.

[music]

I don't have any gear that has a mono button. I will try the other suggestions.

Thanks for the input.

[djui5]

Originally posted by bassmac
I use Waves S1 on my master fader (width set to 0)

Bypassing and un-bypassing makes speedy A/Bing

I like this idea....find a plug-in with panning..and pan both sides center and bypass for A/B'ing...



What are you monitoring through? No console or anything?

Are there no slutz here??????

Buy some gear!
That is how you solve everything!
:)

I suggest you buy a monitoring solution of some sorts if you do not have one. Any high end, big phat API or Neve will have the mono button you need. Or go cheap like me and get a Presonus Central station. Either way you kill two birds with one stone!
You get your mono and feed the monkey!



D

[Bob Olhsson]

You want to both sum them AND THEN drop one speaker.

[Drumsound]

Doesn't the PT master fader have a mono button? The DP one does.

[djui5]

Originally posted by Drumsound
Doesn't the PT master fader have a mono button? The DP one does.

No...and no panning either........

Sucks if you ask me.

Digi........are you out there?.........might be a good idea for the next upgrade........wake up fokkers.

[matucha]

curious about dropping to one speaker only... why? what is wrong with listening mono on two speakers playing the same thing?

[Fletcher]

The Coleman M3 DAW monitor does a wonderful job of this... it's what I have on my rig [at least it will be until I get my full time Avocet... but even that doesn't have the ability to mute the individual speaker outputs like the M3].

I work in "one speaker mono" all the time... the M3 has individual speaker mutes as well as a mono button. It's pretty cool that way.

[matucha]

why one speaker mono? d*a*m*n, I have to try ;-)

[bassmac]

One speaker is just more realistic mono - like a little TV or clock radio.

The Waves S1 does this as well.

[Ruphus]

Yep, Samplitude has a mono switch on the master too.

In another discussion over at PSW I picked up the note which sounded like summing into mono wouldn´t be enough, but that one of the channels was needing a 90 degree phase-shift then.

What about that?
Would merely summing mean phase interference ( which we try to detect at monitoring ) while a 90° shift would prevent from that?
And on the other hand, could it be that the phase shift would be too ideal / supportive to the validated material as it would eventually impede detection of conflicting contents of the merged channels?
When does a 90° shift make most sense?



Ruphus