Does anyone have a preference or know of a sonic differnce between
bouncing a stereo track to disk vs a dual mono track?

I usually mix back into ProTools and then take thos files to mastering,
but I bounce to disk for CD-Rs. I did a single test and bouncing two
mono tracks sounded significanly better to me. In fact, I'm wondering
if I somehow made a mistake when I was bouncing and didn't do the
comparison right.
Is there a reason that there would be any difference?

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:30:12 -0500, wrote
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Does anyone have a preference or know of a sonic differnce between
bouncing a stereo track to disk vs a dual mono track?

I usually mix back into ProTools and then take thos files to mastering,
but I bounce to disk for CD-Rs. I did a single test and bouncing two
mono tracks sounded significanly better to me. In fact, I'm wondering
if I somehow made a mistake when I was bouncing and didn't do the
comparison right.
Is there a reason that there would be any difference?


When you "mix back to pro tools", how are you doing it? Opening up two more
tracks within a production and porting the multitrack mix to them? Then
exporting those tracks?

Are you using a master fader in Pro tools?

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Ty Ford



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Yes. The mixes are happening in the analog domain, so I've got to go
back in to make digital files.

No master fader.

I usually bounce to disk becuase I like to add just a little peak
limiting. I gues I could audio suite the files and then export, but I'm
still curious if I'm better off working with a stereo track or two mono
tracks which I've always though was basically the smae thing in
ProTools.