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Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In electronic music you often slightly detune the left and right of a synthesizer to make it sound "wide", you can't do that in mono and if you mix the stereo down to mono it sounds boring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

However most clubs are going to be playing mono so always bounce to mono and test mix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cant you do that in mono with two oscillators? Also aren't analog synths mono most of the time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think so because the effect is perceived by the time difference each ear receives. The same way we perceive direction of a sound by our brains automatically calculating how long the sound took to get to either ear.