By DokBrown
Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:30 pm
U always here people talking about recording MONO vs STEREO
When I was running ableton with a fancy interface, I did a bit of this but my MPC live has ableton collecting dust [the laptop that was running it actually died;-( ]. I find running my bass synth one 1/4 directly into my MPC input1 does not “sound” as good. Furthermore, the MPC LIVE only has 2 ins & often need 4-6 ins. Now I run all my machines thru an old yamaha mixer into my MPC. I find this works well for getting basic compression/EQ so all my tracks come in pretty solid. I then do basic mixing with the MPC standalone tools with YA master at the end of that chain. My beats are pretty basic 2-6 audio tracks [see example below].
https://reverb.com/item/37977591-c11691 ... 82cx-mixer
https://reverb.com/brand/yamaha?product ... ition=used
Because everything runs thru my Yamaha mixer, all the audio signals come into my MPC stereo. I run 2 ¼ cables from the mixer stereo out into the MPC ins. My old mentor told me I should record kicks & bass mono. Will this make the motherducker sidechain work better ? Any thought on this
I assume panning that track all the way to left should make track MONO? Am I wrong ?
In my MPC I do panning, I usually leave the kick dead center, pan bass primarily left
I do weird panning with my high hats usually to the right
TRACK layout Example:
1] DRM - kicks [mono ?]
2] drums main [snare here]
3] DRM - percussion/overheads [hi hats here]
4] SYNTH bassline [mono ?]
5] MPC LOOP
6] adlibs / XYFX chaos
When I was running ableton with a fancy interface, I did a bit of this but my MPC live has ableton collecting dust [the laptop that was running it actually died;-( ]. I find running my bass synth one 1/4 directly into my MPC input1 does not “sound” as good. Furthermore, the MPC LIVE only has 2 ins & often need 4-6 ins. Now I run all my machines thru an old yamaha mixer into my MPC. I find this works well for getting basic compression/EQ so all my tracks come in pretty solid. I then do basic mixing with the MPC standalone tools with YA master at the end of that chain. My beats are pretty basic 2-6 audio tracks [see example below].
https://reverb.com/item/37977591-c11691 ... 82cx-mixer
https://reverb.com/brand/yamaha?product ... ition=used
Because everything runs thru my Yamaha mixer, all the audio signals come into my MPC stereo. I run 2 ¼ cables from the mixer stereo out into the MPC ins. My old mentor told me I should record kicks & bass mono. Will this make the motherducker sidechain work better ? Any thought on this
I assume panning that track all the way to left should make track MONO? Am I wrong ?
In my MPC I do panning, I usually leave the kick dead center, pan bass primarily left
I do weird panning with my high hats usually to the right
TRACK layout Example:
1] DRM - kicks [mono ?]
2] drums main [snare here]
3] DRM - percussion/overheads [hi hats here]
4] SYNTH bassline [mono ?]
5] MPC LOOP
6] adlibs / XYFX chaos
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