• zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    In electronic music you often slightly detune the left and right of a synthesizer to make it sound “wide”, you can’t do that in mono and if you mix the stereo down to mono it sounds boring.

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      2 months ago

      Cant you do that in mono with two oscillators? Also aren’t analog synths mono most of the time?

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        2 months ago

        I don’t think so because the effect is perceived by the time difference each ear receives. The same way we perceive direction of a sound by our brains automatically calculating how long the sound took to get to either ear.

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      2 months ago

      However most clubs are going to be playing mono so always bounce to mono and test mix.