Recording with stereo tracks

[RAMI]

A "stereo track" IS simply 2 mono tracks linked together. Every stereo track can be split up into 2 mono tracks. Some (most) DAW save space by giving you "stereo tracks". But it's really just the same thing as 2 mono tracks linked together.

My TASACM 2488 doesn't even have stereo tracks, but Tracks 13/14, 15/16, 17/18. 19/20, 21/22, and 23/24 are all linked together in pairs so that one fader controls both tracks. But I can still put a mono track on 13 and another mono track on 14. To record overheads, for example, I still have to assign one input to 13, and the other input to 14. Is that a "stereo track" or "2 mono tracks"? Pretty much the same thing really.

 

[grimtraveller]

A "stereo track" IS simply 2 mono tracks linked together. Every stereo track can be split up into 2 mono tracks.

To record overheads, for example, I still have to assign one input to 13, and the other input to 14. Is that a "stereo track" or "2 mono tracks"? Pretty much the same thing really.

I think that's what's confusing. When the DAW calls it a stereo track, it gives the impression of being something other. Other, that is, than two mono tracks that are linked together. That was one of the things I found confusing with the MRS1266 and I used to wonder what would happen if I recorded two different instruments to the stereo track.

 

[Bobbsy]

Exactly.

In my early days of computer recording, I used Cool Edit 2000 for a while. This limited me to only 4 tracks...but they could be stereo or mono. I used to use stereo tracks to record two separate things sometimes to up my channel count--I had to do silly workrounds where I wanted, for example, different EQ settings but it COULD be done.

 

[mixsit]

I'll keep pushing that the key is simply getting clear content determins stereo or mono sound, and the linking or not of the two paths is a soft or hardware thing.
Always start there.