How does the concept of mono apply to mixing?Īny mono sound, compared to a sound with stereo elements is perceived by the listener to be tighter, more centered, less wide, with less space & less depth and more focused. The result of two equal signals, each being sent to one of two speakers is the phantom mono phenomenon – the listener “hears” a phantom mono signal centered between the speakers, as if all the sound was coming from an imaginary third speaker situated exactly between the two actual speakers. When you record a mono signal, the waveforms of the sound source will show up on a single plane in the middle of the track, exactly like this Mono Recording of a Lead Vocal Track:ĭigital Audio Workstations (DAWs) are designed to take this single mono signal and branch it off into two equal signals one going to the left speaker and one going to the right speaker. How can two speakers create a single, centered, mono illusion? A term sometimes used to describe this phenomenon is “phantom mono.” An interesting phenomenon occurs when playing a mono signal through two speakers.
However, many listening systems use two speakers. “True Monophonic Sound,” or “True Mono” is reproduced with a single speaker. Mono simply means a single audio signal, such as a voice recorded with one microphone, a guitar with one cable, a bass guitar with one cable, or a mono sample from a sample library - as opposed to two different audio signals (stereo). The word Mono comes from the Greek word monos meaning “alone.” In the sound recording and reproduction world, the word Mono is a shortened form of the words Monophonic Sound or Monaural Sound.
In this article I am going to address all of those questions and supply the answers. The deeper you look into this seemingly innocent question, the more and more it becomes clear that this question is really made up of multiple questions, and multiple layers of answers.
What IS the actual difference between mixing stereo tracks and mono tracks? Throughout my 30 plus years mentoring producers and engineers, a few key questions from students stand out as repeating themes, and some of those questions tend to baffle not just the newbie, but even those that have spent a few hundred hours (or more) mixing and mastering.
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