listening in mono.....

[arkjack]

Ok sports fans..... time for another dumb ArkJack question..... (I know there are no dumb questions....) One trick to checking the mix I keep hearing.... Listen in Mono.... so I'm looking at my board, and there is no switch that says.... mono.... maybe on some gear its all left channel.... anyway.... I was thinking of taking the left/right out and doing a reverse Y split to bring the signals into one wire and reconnect a Y that splits the combined signal so that it goes to a left and right in jacks on the monitor's power unit..... should be mono? is it the same...???Arkjack

[sgs4u]

do you have panning knobs on your inputs into your mixing board. It's not as fast as a mono switch, but you should be able to use those (panning controls centered) to check your mixes in mono. What kind of mixing console do you use Ark?

[mazz]

Do you use a computer for recording? If so does your software offer a Master fader output? In some software, there is the ability to switch to mono from the master fader.If your mixing board has sub-groups and the ability to assign the channels to either the sub-groups or the master, you could set up a sub-group as mono (both pan pots center per Steve's suggestion) and then assign all the channels to the buss and un-assign them from the master to listen in mono. This way, you wouldn't have to move the pan pots on every channel.I had a Samson C-control monitor controller for a while. I think they're about 99 bucks and it had a mono switch on it. That worked well. I switched to a Presonus Central Station which is pretty nice, it's all passive so it doesn't add any amplification or noise.Good luck,Mazz

[gitarrero]

dfx monomaker: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/665.html...is a great tool for that. it's a simple plugin - you can load it by default in your master chain & check the mono compatiblity when needed.it's also a good idea to check your mixes with a corelation-meter

[andreh]

It's also a good idea to check mono mixes thru just one [preferably small] speaker, since the bass response of mono mixes gets skewed when two speakers are used. Mono playback usually involves just one smallish speaker (AM radios, mono TV's, store PA playback, crappy PC speaker, etc...), so this approach is abetter "real-world" mix check.You can achieve a 1-speaker mono mix by pressing the mono button on your mixer (or via a plug-in emulation) and turning off one speaker, by panning your main bus all the way to the left or right speaker, or by keeping just one speaker hooked up to an output that contains both the L and R signals..André