What do you usually set as mono or stereo in your tracks

Just want to see a poll of what you usually have certain instruments tracked as mono or stereo. Example
Bass Drum-MONO
Lead Sample-Stereo
HH-Stereo
Snare-Mono

Thanx for replies, just interested in others technics.

bass or bass drums should never be panned left or right. should always be centered. i think good instruments to pan or have stereo effects are percussion (ie. shakers) and hihats. guitars are also good for stereo effects...

if your talking vocals, a tight effect i learned was having your artist record a verse 3 times. first time (main vocal) should be centered. one panned left and one panned right and it gives a pretty tight stereo sound to it...depending on how well you do it...

When A Sample (BASS, KICK, HI-HATS, SAMPLE) has a nice Stereo image than i will leave it like that. If i do not like how the panning or effects has been done, i'll convert to mono and give it my own twist.

bass or bass drums should never be panned left or right.

if thats what you like.. We Producers, we Produce music, we dont have to use standards, We producers, we don't follow

Yea like I said, what do you usually do? Not what is the GOLDEN RULE! I just wanted to hear different technics not hear the old "there is no rules", yea, yea i know heard that line milllion times.

^well owni, i wish i could digg your comment but i made that mistake before taking our adat to another studio to get the music mastered. well, the bass was somehow panned left. he told us that was a no no. so of course we couldnt finish that track until the problem was fixed. now there's probably exceptions in the game where you could pull it off, but i dont recommend doing it. but whatever floats your boat cuzzin.

and philosopher i shared my personal experiences and tips. thats what you asked for so i gave it. if you feel you cant use the tip, dont holla

Smoove I wasn't ranting at you, thanx for the post!
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In this post I was looking for people's individual styles, not what does everyone do but how do you usually track your sounds. Never know when someone has a fresh idea you haven't heard before. and it may not end up working for me/you.

mad_philosopher wrote:In this post I was looking for people's individual styles, not what does everyone do but how do you usually track your sounds.

Maybe try giving your thread a more in depth and descripitive name and people will know right off the bat what the thread is about ya feel...

Read this from sample craze about sampling, there are some good tips on when to sample mono or stereo and just good tips in general.

http://www.samplecraze.com/page.php?xPa ... Guide.html

Basically, you can always make something stereo if you need to, by assigning it to a 2nd pad, then panning. The only reason youd want to sample it in stereo to begin with is if it contained an effect or desired result from the get go-similar to what samplecraze is sayin. Like if there is a vocal, or some crazy organ, panning effect,etc.

Just because your end result is stereo and you might apply some effects and pan shit, doesnt mean the sample has to be in stereo to begin with. If we are talkin the raw peices to a track, then I keep everything mono, except the main sample (but im sampling from vinyl).

Also another tip to sampling in stereo is that if the sample is right, you can erase or clean out the sample: for example: if the drums are panned to the right and vocals to the left, you can just keep the left channel and get a cleaner vocal sample.....or whatever it may be. Sometimes you can cancel out vocals too, by mixing the same channel...... I keep the main sample from vinyl in stereo because of this reason. I have more options with it later.

Finally, I do notice that its difficult to mix drums in with some giant stereo samples; Its harder to match the drums so they dont sound too flat.......but this is part of good mixing. So just because your samples are mono, doesnt mean that the end result will stay mono, sometimes its neccesary to apply effects and do some panning to get things to sit right.

peace