a lot of people use headphones today. And iPhones are stereo since iPhone 7.Najimad wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:17 pm Well, today like in the early years of radio way more than 50% listen to mono, me included on my mono smartphone. When I track to my daw, I use headphones, so I also listen on headphones. Well, low end is an important part and mostly when a mix does not sound well, the cause is in low end. I see, for ambient music the plugin might work, but I mix my songs either in mono or use a mono maker at around 230 Hz. But if you turn the harmonics knob to the left, it is a kinda mono maker, too, not knowing which frequencies are affected. My first impression trying the plugin on a single track with turning knob to the right was positive, but as usual, you should first and foremost listen how something sounds in the whole mix and then there was too much low end, so turning the knob to the right is a no go for me and my music genres. Plugin is a great for taming high end, though. This kind of plugins can have results, you will not notice until you listen in mono. I had some stereo imaging demo plugin by Matthew Lane, first I thought, it is great, but when I listened in mono, my stereo acoustic guitar all of a sudden was gone, you did not hear it any more.... so I am happy, I did not buy it, it's useless for me. One of my fav records was recorded mono, too - kind of blue
i don't care about mono compatibility anyway, because mono is lesser experience anyway. I mix for best possible system not lowest common denominator and it generally translates well.
Else you could hipass at 80hz and lowpass at 15k by the exact same logic, but you don't do that.
Forcefully monoizing at 230Hz seems like poor practice to me. either arrange mono, or leave it be.