Stereo Question

[peterwest_1]

Can someone please explain stereo vs mono to me. I understand that stereo is to the sides and effectively using "two mics" but I don't understand how one achieves this other than duplicating a channel and panning each hard left and hard right, if that's even a way to do it?

 

[bandcoach]

read this

https://www.futureproducers.com/for...ng-mastering/ask-about-mono-vs-stereo-416800/


and I do mean read all of it

there are some interesting twists and turns where folks who don't know try to to explain and they are gracefully (for the most part) corrected by those who do

 

[peterwest_1]

Thanks so much man, appreciate it!

 

[MadAnthony81]

In mono, both speakers equally produce the same sound.

In stereo they alternate.

For effects you can use Pan or different delays to achive this. A ping pong delay automatically does that. You don't need two tracks because for most things you can use Pan. Left/Right. For vocals and using two mics you may want to use 2 tracks. Or you may want to use two different inputs on one track if your DAW supports that. It depends, so experiment.