[Ardour-Users] Summing up to mono ?

[Leo Francisco]

Agree with Thomas.

I monitor in mono sometimes to check the mono compatibility and also the
balance. Often the level of the vocals, kick and reverbs will be more
obviously too loud or too quiet in mono.

The single speaker Thomas is referring to is often this one:
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun10/articles/mixcubeactives.htm

I just use an old stereo with the speakers close together as second
monitors for a similar purpose.

All the best
Leo


On 27/02/16 15:17, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> For many people, just playing back in mono will show up those issues. 
> Thus on the monitor bus in Ardour you have a MONO switch.
>
> Now if you want to be very specific, an external hardware controller
> is often used to switch between monitor systems, and some people will
> use a single mono, and often intentionally crappy(Meaning not flat
> response), monitor speaker, to hear what it will sound like on many
> systems.  SOme could argue that mono compatibility is less of an issue
> than it was, but it is still a good idea to check.
>
> Often times it can be good to balance your mix in mono, and towards
> the end, add stereo panning.  If it sounds good in mono, it can
> probably sound great in stereo.
>
>         Seablade
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:07 AM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com
> <mailto:jonetsu at teksavvy.com> <jonetsu at teksavvy.com
> <mailto:jonetsu at teksavvy.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     The term 'summing up to mono' is seen in audio mixing/mastering
>     articles, which basically means to hear your mix in mono, to check out
>     what would be the effects of phase cancellation for instance.  I
>     presume phase cancellation would be more acute in mono than in a
>     stereo
>     field.
>
>     Is it possible to realize this mono summing up in Ardour ?  For
>     instance a typical session with say 20 tracks, 4 busses and 1 master
>     bus.  Using a 1010LT card, playback 1 and 2 are the default speakers,
>     and playback 3 and 4 the headphones.  Would creating a mono bus and
>     having sends from all the tracks sent to that mono bus which in turn
>     would be assigned to single playback output 5 connected to a single
>     speaker, achieve what is meant in those articles ?
>
>     Cheers.
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