5 Minutes To A Better Mix: Mixing In Mono - TheRecordingRevolution.com

Part 23 of 31 - One of the best ways to ensure your mix will hold up out in the "real world" is to reference your mix in mono. If you are relying too heavily on panning separation for clarity, then you are handicapping yourself.

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Music

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• mixing
• mix
• mono
• panning
• stereo
• reference
• tutorial
• protools
• pro tools

[BobSince1981]

Is that Annie Lawrence singing?

[recordingrevolution]

@BobSince1981 Yes indeed.

[jilz01]

hello, great tutorial but how to i view this "mix bus" in protools? or is it just an aux with all the tracks bused to it? if its an aux i find it kinda annoying when soloing a track as i have to also solo the aux track lol i there a way to fix this?

[recordingrevolution]

@jilz01 It's just an AUX with every track routed to it. Simply hold command or control (on a PC) and click the solo button to put it in solo safe mode.

[amirhe6]

i I've noticed that in mono everything got louder , now I think its beacause of the pan law or somthing ,anyway , was that fine for you ? I mean , if the volume gets louder in mono , is that ok ? you just want to check for seperation and clarity ?

Another thing , the mix bus , is that a regular setero aux channel you sent your mix through ? (I am a cubase user so I dont understand this mix bus... I think in cubase there is an option to sum it in mono on the master fader...)

[recordingrevolution]

@amirhe6 Yeah, the pan laws might be different but your'e checking for balance and phase in mono. Not overall output level.

Yes, i mix everything to a "master fader" which is a stereo aux track basically.

[lentejTV9]

@byouno93 depends the style!

[byouno93]

why I love mixing dance music: not too much panning to worry about :D

[Pascosuhfar]

hey i am new at this mixing thing am a young producer fr Jamaica with a simple home studio not much equipment just a tube mp-studio,a mxl 900 microphone and my laptop am having problems with my vocals in terms of them sounding too hard how do i cushion this without using too much reverb? and do you think that the eq and and the compressor has anything to do with it? i would really appreciate ur advise. nb i use waves plugins. mainly R Vox, stereo imager, de esser and waves reverb.

[andyyager10]

I just want to thank you for using songs of faith in this series. What a great surprise.