Record all trax in STEREO? Why/Why Not?

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If you record a mono track into more than one channel ..... all you have is multiple copies of the same track. Like Massive said ...... it's a mono track no matter how many channels you record it to ..... period. It's just multiple copies of the same track.
As for getting better results from FX .... no way. You can take a single mono track .... split it and run into both inputs of the FX and you'll have exactly the same thing as if you ran two seperate tracks of the same mono source into the FX inputs.
For the same reason .... I'm not sure that having two mono tracks to mix and pan is what muddies up the sound.
I think it's more because if you have double mono tracks of everything ...... then you pan them around ..... you end up with say, that guitar being panned to two different places in the mix. The two 'stereo' tracks of a mono source are identical so you're smearing the placement of that source by having two identical tracks that you've panned to two different places.
I can see no useful reason at all to record a mono source into two or more channels.
 
Lt. Bob said:
I can see no useful reason at all to record a mono source into two or more channels.
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This is true if you use all of your FX through the busses. I often print FX directly to the track as it puts less of a strain on the computer. If you print a stereo effect to a mono track you will get a much different result than if you split the track into double mono and print the effect to the track.
 
sikter said:
Hey!
I think you’ve recorded mono instrument into stereo track which means you got one side recorded and other side empty.
You must record it as mono. The right click on your empty track (where you record)/recording device and choose either left or right channel.
(you’ll find out easy which one is connected with your input signal)
Even better: Make those settings as default. (options/settings)
sikter
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hi Sikter.....no...I haven't, but thankyou.
Mono is the new default on my system when tracking, so I have to physically set to stereo tracking if I want to do something more specialised, ie./eg. my stereo keys.
 
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