We’re back with another video mixing tip. Today’s is so foundational that it’s really worth more than one day’s tip. But it’s so easy that it can easily be overlooked by newer mixers.
Mono Forces You To Work Smarter
If you want to get the absolute best EQ balance in your mixes, then make it a habit to do most of your EQ’ing while in mono. That way you won’t have the stereo field to distract you with “easy separation”. You’ll be forced to think hard about which frequencies need attention to get your tracks to sit together well.
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Hi,
Nice video! Have been a big fan of mono monitoring for a few years now!
I always do this..EQ in mono.With one speaker though. I pan everything to one side and mix. And later check on some cheap computer speakers..in fact I even automate my volume levels in mono! For me, the stereo playback turns out HUGE!
Thanks for the videos!
Gokul
Never tried this before. Will now!
Hey, a quick slightly off topic question. I love that slow-strum electric guitar in the left. is that a chorus on there? what else did you do to it and what kind of guitar was it, cause that’s an amazing sound!!!!
Hey, I’ve been a recurrent user of this technique lately, also I wanted to say, I really like your site, I think we are kind of in the same page on our engineering thoughts, and that’s cool. This one I realized kind of by accident (sounds really amateur I know), but after mixing a concert recording for hours I kind of messed something in my configuration, so I was mixing in mono for a long while and when I pulled it out to stereo again, it sounded clearer than the first stereo results, so about 2 hours of an accident gave me a clue, now I do a lot of EQing and compressing in mono.