What's up Chili! Don't pay attention to people like Mattr, he's probably a gingery pimple faced kid who is butt hurt he payed for a £5000 plug bundle. Anyone who gives a "shot" about producing engineering and recording will do what they need to. There's no one here regulating peoples lives,
Do what you love, if you make money with it be thankful and contribute.
End rant. Anyways mono vs stereo honestly I've found stereo always is best and than if it's bass frequency or kick or snare, stuff that is core like, you might want to change the signal at the end to mono via another plug or utility. Hope you figured it out. Much love and Mattr get a life bro, you are so pent up. Go make something worth talking about.
Welcome to the site.
I doubt Mattr payed for the expensive version of Waves, he probably stayed within his means and bought what he could afford or used the stock plugs that came with his DAW.
I care about preventing theft, especially software. I look at it from two perspectives. If I create material for others to use, I would expect to get paid for it. Whether it's music, or anything else. If I do work for someone, I expect them to pay me. The same would hold true for software engineers. They should get paid for their work. When their work is stolen, then they don't sell as much and they have to raise the price or simply not create the work in the first place.
We have access to some great software out there like the Waves plugs. That's because people work hard to create it. They charge a high price because it probably required a lot of engineering work to create, plus, the market isn't that big and they aren't going to turn a profit on volume. And honestly, I don't want to pay a lot for software either, so I buy what I can afford.
To that end, when someone comes to this site looking for help with their stolen warez, they don't find much love. They will probably get banned like our friend Magtex. I want this site to be about the music and how we record it, not about discussions on theft, cracks and warez.
And lastly, you're right, we don't regulate people's lives, but we do have some Terms of Service that you (supposedly) agreed to when you signed up. I'm sure you didn't read them, no one reads them!!
but they do mention pirated software and I try to help run this site in accordance with those terms.
Now about Stereo and Mono plugs. I think it's pretty obvious, you use mono plugs on a mono track and a stereo plug on a stereo track.
Again, welcome to the site
For example I have CLA compressors bundle and sometimes I accidentally put stereo compressor on mono channel. I can hear and see that the left side is compressed, but what happens to the right side? I guess it stays unaffected?