What's up everyone, I am brand new to this forum but from browsing it seems like everyone here is really cool as well as knowledgeable so I figured I would bring my question here since I cannot find a solid answer anywhere else, I am posting this from a mobile device so please forgive any misspellings or grammatical errors lol.
Quick Technical info :
The main sequencer I use to compose and arrange is FL Studio 12.
Pro tools 10 (which I literally just upgraded to yesterday from PT M Powered 8) is the DAW I use for mixing and live instrument / vocal tracking.
Anyway, I am a producer and I do a lot of hip hop projects and something had been eating at me for quite some time so here goes...
When it comes to mixing (hip hop drums in particular) should I mix in mono, or stereo? (particularly the kick drum). Now, FL exports everything in stereo, there is no way around this, but I noticed in PT 10 you can split a track into mono,
I experimented with this today and when I take a kick drum stereo file and split it into mono it makes it into two files, left and right (then I obviously have the original stereo track left over) in this scenario, would it be reasonable to delete the original stereo file, and ONE of the mono splits, then center the single one that is left? Would this give me true mono kick drum? should I even consider mixing a kick drum or any drums in mono in the first place for a hip hop production? Mind you I would obviously do some boosting in the low end small cuts in the mid range etc etc) which obviously would be done differently depending on the sound I am working with) but I have been pretty happy over the years mixing my kicks in stereo, however I have always ran into clashing frequency issues in the low range and what not.
I have been previously told that when it comes to drums especially, one should mix in mono as it will be in the center of your mix and leave wide room for things like synths, keys, etc. And gives you true panning freedom as well as you can get that extra thickness and boom.
So, what do you guys think? Input?
Thanks so much I look forward to seeing replies and further discussing.
Quick Technical info :
The main sequencer I use to compose and arrange is FL Studio 12.
Pro tools 10 (which I literally just upgraded to yesterday from PT M Powered 8) is the DAW I use for mixing and live instrument / vocal tracking.
Anyway, I am a producer and I do a lot of hip hop projects and something had been eating at me for quite some time so here goes...
When it comes to mixing (hip hop drums in particular) should I mix in mono, or stereo? (particularly the kick drum). Now, FL exports everything in stereo, there is no way around this, but I noticed in PT 10 you can split a track into mono,
I experimented with this today and when I take a kick drum stereo file and split it into mono it makes it into two files, left and right (then I obviously have the original stereo track left over) in this scenario, would it be reasonable to delete the original stereo file, and ONE of the mono splits, then center the single one that is left? Would this give me true mono kick drum? should I even consider mixing a kick drum or any drums in mono in the first place for a hip hop production? Mind you I would obviously do some boosting in the low end small cuts in the mid range etc etc) which obviously would be done differently depending on the sound I am working with) but I have been pretty happy over the years mixing my kicks in stereo, however I have always ran into clashing frequency issues in the low range and what not.
I have been previously told that when it comes to drums especially, one should mix in mono as it will be in the center of your mix and leave wide room for things like synths, keys, etc. And gives you true panning freedom as well as you can get that extra thickness and boom.
So, what do you guys think? Input?
Thanks so much I look forward to seeing replies and further discussing.
Mixing Hip Hip : Need advice (In particular for kick drums)
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