Another good reason to periodically check your mixes in mono and adjust.

P.S it's just a flip of your stereo/mono button on your master bus or audio interface.
 

haha, sorry further supplementary question!
 
When effects are added to a mono track that is panned left or right - do the effects also follow that same panning setting? And, are the effects themselves mono or stereo - or is this distinction ruled by the source track?
 
Thanks

Bristol_Jonesey
Yes it does and you can easily prove it.
 
Import any short wav into an empty project
Select the track and bounce it to mono
Pan it hard left or right
Export just this track selecting Tracks as the source
Re-import it and look at the wav

I am trying to understand what you are doing here, and what it proves. If you import a stereo wave file and then turn it into a mono track, then export that altered track as either a mono or stereo wave, that is not the same operation as exporting a mono track created in Sonar as a mono wave file. You have introduced at least one stereo to mono conversion.
In fact I am not clear on what the OP is proposing to do with his mono track, export to a stereo wave or output or to a mono wave?

All I was suggesting was that if you export a panned mono track, your export will also be panned.

joden
haha, sorry further supplementary question!
 
When effects are added to a mono track that is panned left or right - do the effects also follow that same panning setting? And, are the effects themselves mono or stereo - or is this distinction ruled by the source track?
 
Thanks

Depends totally on the Fx plug. Some will give a mono output, some stereo. Switching the track interleave between stereo and mono also yields some interesting results

slartabartfastIn fact I am not clear on what the OP is proposing to do with his mono track, export to a stereo wave or output or to a mono wave?

Intent was to export individual mono tracks to someone who is mixing something for me. Had realized that I exported with panning still set from when I was messing around with the mix, but I wanted him to receive everything straight up with no panning input from me.
 
What I've learned in the thread is that I needed to return the tracks to straight up/not panned before exporting.
 
And do I have this right: if I had wanted him to see what I was thinking in terms of panning, then exporting the tracks as panned would have given him that information. Correct? And would that work even if he was using ProTools, Cubase? (He actually uses SAWStudio.)

chamlin
 
 
And do I have this right: if I had wanted him to see what I was thinking in terms of panning, then exporting the tracks as panned would have given him that information. Correct? And would that work even if he was using ProTools, Cubase? (He actually uses SAWStudio.)

If you're talking about sending individual files (file per track), no he wouldn't get an idea of your panning. If you send him the "project file" and he is using the same DAW as you, then the answer would be yes he would get exactly what you have set up in your project minus the plugins (which he may or may not have similar to yours).
 
On that note, one of the easiest ways to give him an idea of your panning ideas as well as general overall project idea, pan and balance wise is to send him an included 2 track stereo mix file of what you have for a general reference.

Got it, thanks!