Avid Pro Audio Community

Avid Pro Audio Community

How to Join & Post  •  Community Terms of Use  •  Help Us Help You

Knowledge Base Search  •  Community Search  •  Learn & Support


Avid Home Page

Go Back   Avid Pro Audio Community > Pro Mixing > Avid Pro Mixing General Discussion

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 05-01-2019, 02:36 PM
Cglass1982 Cglass1982 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Hartlepool, England
Posts: 3
Default How to approach mixing stereo tracks

I am quite new to pro tools and I am a bit perplexed about mono tracks and stereo tracks. I know how to split a mono to stereo and how to join two mono tracks to create a stereo, but I am unsure when and why to use a mono track, and when and why to use a stereo track?

I have downloaded some clips from puremix and each drum track (kick, snare, hi hat etc.) is a stereo track, and some of the vocals are stereo tracks?

If anybody can tell me why you would choose to use stereo tracks instead of mono that would be great.

Also, how would you pan these tracks when they are in stereo with two pan knobs?

Thanks in advance
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 05-01-2019, 02:47 PM
amagras amagras is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Ottawa, ON
Posts: 3,399
Default Re: How to approach mixing stereo tracks

Go back to the source, for example, singers have one mouth = mono, bass and guitars when recorded with one mic or DI = mono, keyboards that have 2 outputs = stereo. Insert a correlation meter on the Master and check out which of those tracks actually have stereo information, if they do (could be reverb for example and the meter will show information in the sides) leave it stereo, if they don't (the meter shows a vertical line only) insert a la PT stock plugin called Downmixer to convert them to mono or simply split into two mono tracks and delete one... That's how I do it here.
__________________
Dell XPS 8700. Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz. RAM: 16GB. Windows 10 Home x64. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645. NI Komplete Audio 6. Pro Tools Software 2019
amagrasmusic.com
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 05-01-2019, 04:23 PM
DonaldM's Avatar
DonaldM DonaldM is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Indiana
Posts: 4,588
Default Re: How to approach mixing stereo tracks

Most of the time, if I get stereo tracks that I know should be mono, I just split into mono and delete the original stereo and one of the monos. One thing I like about Pro Tools is that when creating a new audio track it always defaults to mono, so you have to make an extra click to select stereo. Most things I record from external sources are almost always going to be mono, other than stereo outputs from a synth.
__________________
"Never believe anything you hear in a song." Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
Owner: Dragon Rock Productions LLC


Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 05-07-2019, 10:44 AM
Cglass1982 Cglass1982 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Hartlepool, England
Posts: 3
Default Re: How to approach mixing stereo tracks

Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
mixing multiple tracks to a single stereo track billardis Windows 2 10-12-2013 04:36 PM
Surround Mixing / Stereo monitoring with Soundcode Stereo Meads Post - Surround - Video 6 01-04-2011 04:52 AM
connecting 001 to a home stereo to A/B between mixing monitors and stereo speakers... Siberian 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Win) 3 04-09-2003 11:14 PM
Editing tom tracks - your approach? Emerson Scott 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 17 02-18-2003 10:32 AM
NEW APPROACH TO VOICE- OVER TRACKS Don Henry Tips & Tricks 7 04-05-2001 12:51 AM


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 04:34 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Forum Hosted By: URLJet.com