ORIGINAL: John

John,

Normally, I wouldn't reply to this thread or drag up arguments from another thread, but, I too read the (lengthy) thread that you linked above and feel compelled to express my observations. It seems that the main thrust of both arguments were correct...you arguing the merits of the sonic characteristics of a stereo sound source vs. he arguing the merits of panning two or more mono sources within a stereo field to produce a single composite stereo image. Both arguments are valid and seemingly unrelated, i.e, apples to oranges.

the threads have been entertaining, though...thanks for the input.

I think you may have missed the basic point of the thread. Also why I engaged in it.

Hi all,
 
I have a topic that fits to this interesting thread:
 
Due to the fact that the interleave switch is located in front of the Prochannel/EffectsBin I found an impact on my audio that I did not expect. If you use dynamics (mono) plug-ins like limiter/gate/compressor usually present in a vocal track you can not switch the track to stereo because of e.g. a stereo reverb at the end of the effects chain. If you do this the output of the dynamics plug-ins is getting diffuse.
My guess is that the two signals of the stereo audio are not processed exactly the same way by the mono effects a so they add an 'unwanted' stereo effect to the audio which corrupts the result.
 
Am I right? Can somebody confirm my analysis?
 
It would mean that you can NOT combine mono an stereo effects in the Prochannel/EffectsBin.
You always need a separate stereo Send/Return Bus in this case. A pity, because the latency of the system is getting worse then.
 
Thanks and regards,
 
Peter