recording synths mono for clubs

[marc]

Originally Posted by Gopal

Hey guys, I've been DJing for approx 8 years in all kinds of clubs and venues and I can only name one rig I've ever played on one that was in mono. The only reason it is set up in mono is that there is a fucking spaghetti of cables going into the back room where the amps are set up and no one knows quite where to plug things in properly (and I don't have the time during the day to go in and pull it apart and rewire it). So what happens is, if you run the rig in stereo, the left sub is dead, switch the mixer to mono and it comes alive! Hence the rig gets run in mono even though it sounds fuckin aweful. So, don't worry about it in the producing side of things. Do everything above the bass frequencies in stereo and if the club wants to run their rig in mono, all they have to do is flick a switch on the mixer and voila! you have mono :P

in my experience, it is not so much that the clubs play tunes in mono but mixing a track for a club involves that you should take care of stereo signals. one reason is that most listeners won't enjoy the benefits of a stereo signal anyway. maybe they even would enjoy the opposite. imaginem you're standing next to the right speaker and you can hear something that only would make sense rhythmically if you hear the left speaker - which you obviously don't. and another reason is that (without proper equipent to measure the phase' correlation) it probably will just sound better for most of the clubbers.

marc