What is "Mono Compatibility"?
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- KVRer
- 17 posts since 31 Mar, 2004
I'm learning Ozone and working with the stereo widener. The docs tell me to keep checking for "mono compatibility" (by pressing the mono button), but it never says what that is, or why I should care, etc. What I've found is that when it starts sounding awesome in stereo from my monitors and I click mono, it sounds terrible. Is this to check in case someone is going to listen to it in mono?
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- KVRAF
- 4692 posts since 28 Jan, 2003 from In these very interwebs
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- KVRAF
- 3441 posts since 15 Mar, 2003
You can get phasing problems and other issues between the 2 tracks that make up a stereo track.
When you go to mono it can actually cause some frequencies to cancell (or possibly reenforce) each other. This can wreck the sound.
if it gets played back in mono on a single speaker portable player or on a mono TV set it will sound bad.
I usually check my mixes in mono from time to time but never noticed anything.
If you are phase inverting some tracks for effect this could cause problems.
Or if some sample was recorded with a phase reversal.
When you go to mono it can actually cause some frequencies to cancell (or possibly reenforce) each other. This can wreck the sound.
if it gets played back in mono on a single speaker portable player or on a mono TV set it will sound bad.
I usually check my mixes in mono from time to time but never noticed anything.
If you are phase inverting some tracks for effect this could cause problems.
Or if some sample was recorded with a phase reversal.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 17 posts since 31 Mar, 2004
Thanks everyone!
That's a in interesting call. I mean, there aren't even that many mono T.V.s nowadays. Like I said, it sounds downright awesome in stereo, but in mono is terrible. So I am left with thinking how often it will get played in mono. I would venture a guess at "hardly ever", so how can I argue with the awesome stereo sound?
That's a in interesting call. I mean, there aren't even that many mono T.V.s nowadays. Like I said, it sounds downright awesome in stereo, but in mono is terrible. So I am left with thinking how often it will get played in mono. I would venture a guess at "hardly ever", so how can I argue with the awesome stereo sound?
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- KVRist
- 415 posts since 23 Oct, 2004
Almost all club sound is mono. If you're doing dance music or anything likely to find its way to a big PA,Yasoo wrote:Thanks everyone!
That's a in interesting call.
it's a good idea to check how it sounds when summed as mono.
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- KVRian
- 1394 posts since 28 Mar, 2002 from Austria
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1128.htmlflex42 wrote:Does anyone know a small free vst plug to check mono comp. (to insert on the master channel)? Thanks in advance!
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... cplugs.htm