Panning mono mixto stereo

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Im currently recording with DBX 286 A mic preamp which records only in mono.. I have still recorded in stereo and panned the signals equally to right and left.. I think that my mixes sound way lot better that way than in mono.. At least they sound better..Does the quality of my mix drop or do i lose some frequences when i pan?
 
How could you record a mono source in stereo?

Did you record the same thing twice (two different performances)?

Did you record a bunch of different things and then pan them across the stereo field?

We need a little more info.
 
it sounds like he's recorded a mono source onto a stereo track.
In other words, the mono microphone gets fed to the L/R channels of a stereo track.

Which is the same thing as duplicating a mono track....or just turning up a mono track by 3dB.

You should record a mono signal to a mono track. There is no benefit to recording it on a stereo track.
 
You don't lose anything doing this, except disk space, assuming we're talking DAW. As Farview said, this is NOT stereo, it's two identical mono tracks if recorded through a mono pre in one pass, and is the same as copying a mono track to a second mono track. It can be useful for panning them out and applying different processing to each, creating psuedo stereo.
 
bennychico11 said:
it sounds like he's recorded a mono source onto a stereo track.
In other words, the mono microphone gets fed to the L/R channels of a stereo track.
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I started to type the same thing, but if that were the case, they should allready be panned left/right, and he shouldn't have a pair of pan knobs to pan them out, at least not on the DAWs I've used.
 
I have a dbx286 in my rack and still use it now and then. Maybe what you should do is come outa the 286 into some kind of stereo simulator, which is often a comb filter arrangement. Properly used ( tweaked) they can improve a mono source to make it sit better in a mix. This is a very subtle process and works best when you have really good monitors which will allow you to hear small changes in relative levels, eq, comp etc. Sometimes it will work best if you track the source mono and use the stereo sim at mixdown which will allow you to hear it in the context of everything else thats going on.


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