Sampling

[netz]

Mono or Stereo
Pro's and cons please
also does it effect the overall sound at the end?

[springwater]

when you sample flip mono and stereo on and off while listening to the sample. when your in mono if you aint losing anything go for mono, like drum samples n shit. if you go from stereo to mono and you hear like a whole channel gets ccut, it might be some sound in stereo that you want that you'd lose going to mono. i always just flip back and forth to hear the difference. like if you got a crazy sample with a bunch of instruments, you might lose half of em going to mono and the sound wont be the same.
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[dishwater]

^ how does that work, if both channels get resampled onto a single mono channel, shouldn't it preserve all sounds that were in the stereo sample, just flattened?

[springwater]

im just going by my ears. like i sampled this one thing that had a bunch of different pads and piano sounds and when i turned it to mono it lost some of the sounds in that sample. I just assumed that the original sound had alot of panning left and right so it might have dropped down to a lower volume when i sampled it to mono. I dont really know whats happening, im just going by my ears, so usually when i have a sample thats a single sound, i sample in mono, if its a bunch of layered sounds i sample in stereo, just in case. i can always resample to mono if i want, and free up some of that polyphony.

[dman5000]

put any low bass sounds in mono

[Hot Sauce]

putting the bass mono only applies if you're cutting to wax.

but generally i personally tend to keep a lot of my shit mono. i go stereo for synths and shit but for my drums and bass it's all mono.

disadvantages of stereo:
reduced sampling time, which really isn't a factor.

[cartesia]

putting the bass mono only applies if you're cutting to wax.

Not necessarily... It also applies to people who have a sub on their home hifi (just a single sub) and if a club runs a mono system / mono subs.. Basically if you have stereo bass track, you need to make sure that summing it to mono doesn't cause cancellation.

[fauna]

the disadvantage of stereo, on an SP machine, is that it will eat up yr polyphony faster.

as springwater says, sometimes there's shit in a stereo sample you need to hear in stereo. i do the same fing he does, flip back and forth.

but yeah, i default to mono for nearly everything (always on drums, almost always on bass) and it becomes a judgment call on the other samples.