Hi!
Yesterday I noticed something weird with the kick drum. I used a drum kit from Toontracks EZDrummer 2 and sent the pieces to a multi-track into my DAW (Cubase 8.5 Pro). Then I realized that all my drums that should be in “mono channels” in my DAW’s mix console actually was in stereo channels, like the kick, snare, hi-hat, etc. But to me they should all be in mono since those sounds are supposed to be captured using a single microphone, like vocals, guitars, bass, etc (unless you have more than one mic on them of course).
Well, I didn’t think about it at first and went away mixing the drums and for example adding a plugin like SSL EQ (in mono of course) on the kick drum. So, then I soloed the kick drum to listen to the sound I was making with the plugins, but…there was only a sound coming from the right speaker, nothing from the left speaker. I was like????
So I checked what was wrong and thought about having a stereo channel with a plugin in mono, so I realized I had to have a stereo plugin not a mono plugin on the kick drum, looooool!!! Well it worked so now I have the kick drum in both speakers, but… Really?? Is it the way iy should be; that we are mixing kick drums in stereo, etc?
Toontrack what’s your answer to this please??? How can I make mono channels when multi your drum program to the DAW, or shouldn’t I??
Anyway, many regards and I do like your drum programs, they sound real good!
