Sampling drums in stereo/mono

i was watching some kev brown interview and he mentioned something about sampling drums in stereo and he said its bad to do that... i was just wondering what does sampling it in mono do to make it sound better?

Everything I record is in mono, then later I pan out the tracks to make a stereo final mix. There's nothing special about stereo or mono, stereo sounds are signals split into Left and Right channels, so on your left speaker you'll hear the cymbals sizzling and on your right speaker you'll hear the kicks thumping, but in mono these signals are combined so on your right and left speaker you'll hear both the cymbals and kicks on either channel.

I think he means that with mono, the sounds comes out stronger where with stereo, since the signal is split in two you lose some vital frequencies. This is for recording btw. Some engineers I know put three mics to a drum kit and each mic is recorded to three seperate tracks in mono, later it get panned out to give an effect that the drum kit is there in your living room. The tamborines jiggling on your left speaker, the bass drum in the middle and the snare cracking on your right speaker.

Thats from my experience though. Creating a stereo song is another art all on its own when mixing down. I even record samples in mono then pan them later when its time to mix it down.

Drums in mono will simply be more "in your face". For Hip Hop, that's not a bad thing. Stereo drums on the other hand can sound nice too and blend in nicely, but lose some of the power mono drums can have.

Try both and see what works, there's no golden rule.

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I take it you're Iron Mic Kane? Hope all is good homie, peace!

most of my stuff is sampled/recorded in mono, i just feel like stuff that i keep in mono "hit harder" and that i have freedom to pan and also saves memory when you record in mono

I have been wondering about this also. What I found working for me was to (when recording a stereo source like a break beat) keep things like cymbals and snare in stereo and place the kick as mono in center. This way I feel that i keep some of the great sounding stereo reverb and likes youll find in studio recordings

Always depends on the source. Most of the time I sample mono (mix of the left and right channel) but some drums dont 'feel' right when you mix left and right together to a mono signal. In those cases I use only one side of the break. I realized that most of the time this is happen if the dry drums are placed in the middle and a reverb is more on one side than the other. I often sample the side with less reverb then. cause it seem to have more beef. As soon as the reverb side is mixed to it it loose this knocking and get a bit thin.
So the question for me is not "stereo or mono? "
but "stereo or mono mix of left and right or mono right or mono left"

peace

what peter said

for me it depends on the song im doing...

if the drums are really busy ...i throw pan the high hats,snares, or anything other then the kick...the kick always stays straight in the middle.

now if the track is more for bumping ..like a in your face type aggressive beat....i middle everything.



i guess it depends on the song and how you want the listner to hear it...always comes down to personel preference.