Any Tricks For Keeping The Low End Of A Track Mono?

Put a filter on for 500 and below and bounce to a new track, then change the filter to 500 and up maybe? Would you give a track for each to what you want with. Probably better ways though.
 
 

You could check out Mongoose from Boz Millar of Boz Digital for an idea.

http://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/mongoose/

WalkerTalker
I use this free plugin:
 
http://www.toneprojects.c...cts/plug-ins/basslane/

Had not heard of that one. Looks very similar in function / purpose. Good find!

Ozone 6 and 7 have a multiband "stereoizer". Let's you narrow or spread individual frequency ranges.

+1 for Ozone Imager module. That way you have control over what bass frequencies are narrowed all the way to mono if you want.

+1 on Mongoose!

Two ways using the same concept (and included Sonar tools).
 
1) This is more mastering (so after you've mixed and exported). Import your mixed export to a new "mastering" project. Clone the track. On both tracks insert the Sonitus Multiband (compressor). On the first track enable every band except the lowest band (so all the low frequencies are silenced. On the second track do the reverse (mute all bands except the lowest frequency band). Now on the second track (which is only playing back the low freqs) hit the Stereo Interleave button to turn it into mono. Of course you may want to adjust exactly how wide that low band is so if you want to adjust it do the adjustment then clone it to the other track. That way you can mute the necessary bands without having any frequncies ommitted or duplicated (because you cloned the effect the band settings will be identical on both instances).
 
2) If you want to do this IN the mix then do essentially the same thing but with Sends and Busses. So make sure ALL your tracks get sent to two busses right before the master (so you would be routing your subgroup busses to these if you are using them. Otherwise you'd have to set it up on every track. You shoudl always use sub busses though for instrument groups). So on all your sub busses set the output to one of your Sonitus Multiband busses and create a Send to the second Multiband bus. Then you just set your frequency bands as described before and set the Interleave button on the low freq bus to Mono.
 
Of course you need to set up all instances of the Sonitus Multiband to not do ANYTHING to the signal. So no compression or limiting or whatever. You are just using it as a frequency splitter.
 
That is kind of a bastardization/reimagining of some Anderton techniques.
 
Cheers.

lawajava
Beepster that's solid info but a heck of a lot more involved than adding a dedicated plugin, such as Mongoose, that keeps it simple.

Heh... minimalism through poverty.
 
Part of the reason I decided on Sonar (X1 Prod Suite) was it had everything included to do almost anything. Not always as elegant and pretty as it would be with third party tools and/or addons (in some cases) but I can't afford much (including time to even mess with "free plugs" that might anger the Sonar gods and/or gremlins)... so brute force jury riggin' elbow grease is how I roll... when necessary.
 
Helps me understand the techniques better too instead of slapping a plug on things and staying oblivious. lol

gswitz
 
Dag, I just typed exactly what Beep typed. haha. Nice one Beep.

Except you did it quite a bit more concisely. lol
 
I really should learn how to make my wordimicating a little smaller one day.
 
;-)

lawajava

WalkerTalker
I use this free plugin:
 
http://www.toneprojects.c...cts/plug-ins/basslane/

Had not heard of that one. Looks very similar in function / purpose. Good find!

I found it through SOS's Mix Rescue column.  Excellent column to read, but usually ends up giving me G.A.S.!  So it's a nice bonus when the plug ins used are free!

Another free plugin:
 
http://www.alexhilton.net/A1AUDIO/index.php/a1stereocontrol
 
"Safe Bass

The integrated "Safe Bass" algorithm centers all bass frequencies
below a adjustable value right back into the middle of the stereo
field. This gives your tracks the solidity and definition you want
while preserving maximum transparency and sharpness. Similar
techniques were used by professional studio producers over ages
with either expansive hardware devices like elliptical equalizers or
even advanced m/s-processors. With my plugin you will be able
to manage this complicated task with a minimum effort.

Simply turn on "Safe Bass" and adjust the frequency if needed.
That's it  - It's really that simple ! (Especially for Mastering)
 
(PLEASE NOTE: THIS PLUGIN WORKS ONLY ON STEREO TRACKS !)"
 
Hope this helps.

Mid/Side processing would be my go-to here. It's possible to convert stereo to Mid/Side tracks, but there are indeed EQ's that do all the complicated work for you. The aforementioned plugins are all good choices, and we also have the Hoser XT available on our store that does M/S processing. Keep your eyes on the Cakewalk Blog -- more info about M/S processing coming soon :)