newbee question - summed mono

[cunninghamprod]

I am using the Mbox for recording narration tracks. I can create a mono track for the recording and processing. I need to have 2 track mono out to bounce to disc (playing audio mp3 within Macromedia director). The only way I've figured out to do this is to create 2 mono audio tracks, assign them left and right and bring them out of the master fader 2 track mono.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

jim
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[where02190]

pan the single mono track center, left and right will be identical.

[egraham]

Along the lines of this topic - does anyone know how to do a mono check on a stereo mix? I know of only two ways to do this. Bounce the file to disk as mono (summed) rather than stereo interleaved - or - make sure everything goes through a stereo aux track and pan its L&R outputs center. The first method takes too much time and the second steals a bus pair and seems like it's still more hassle than necessary. There has got to be a better way to do this. Creating a mono master fader doesn't seem to work because it doesn't sum outputs, it only allows the signal through from the channel output you specify. Any suggestions?

[vicwind]

what system do you have? with the mbox and the 002, there's a button for mono output. this serves as a quick check as i often hit this button during mixing to check how things sum up.
hope this helps.

[where02190]

For OS9, Pluggo has a great plugin called PeakMe, that's a detailed level and phase metering plug with a mono button. Place it on the master fader.

[AverageJoe]

I bought the Samson control C monitor matrix and it has a monitor button... It's about $99 and has 3 speaker switchers, headphone out, mono, dim, talkback, and 3 aux ins.

It's a very cool box and now I don't have to jump through hoops to monitor mono.

[egraham]

what system do you have? with the mbox and the 002, there's a button for mono output. this serves as a quick check as i often hit this button during mixing to check how things sum up.
hope this helps.

I don't know about the 002, but on the Mbox the mono button only affects the input signal, not playback. It's used when you are recording a mono input and you want to hear it come out of both speakers rather than just one.

Thanks everyone for the advice on how to do this. It seems like such a simple feature that Digi could easiily integrate within the software. Why they haven't done it yet?... wish I knew.

[vicwind]

sorry about the mbox error. however, the 002 mono button affects playback (for anyone who cares)