mix in mono?

[DrewPeterson7]

I still start nearly every mix in mono. Ridiculously easier to do corrective EQ when it's messing with everything else.

The nice thing about a mix that sounds good in mono is that you're all but guaranteed to sound great panned out. The opposite isn't necessarily true.

Since this threat got bumped anyway - I've always made a point of periodically checking a mix in mono (I think most DAWs give you the option to collapse your master bus to mono - this is certainly the case in Reaper) but I've never really thought much about actually going ahead and doing EQ adjustments while still in mono, rather than just using it as a way to identify problems. In hindsight, your suggestion seems pretty self-evident, and I should have figured that out before now. Kind of an interesting thought, thanks!

 

[Seafroggys]

I actually do that for snare drum volume. Sometimes I think the snare will sound clear in stereo, but when I reduce to mono it can get a bit buried, so I'll bump it up a bit, and then when I switch back to stereo it still sounds nice and clear and not too loud.