If you look at a single track in the tracks window, and you record it as a stereo wave audio track, using both the 1/2 inputs or left and right, and let's say it is a vocal track, you will have to side by side wave patterns. One is a left input and the other a right. But if you pan that track to 90 deg right both will go to the same place.

You can use those two wave patterns to do some stereo effects with in that track, but for all intents and purposes they are really not true stereo like two separate tracks will be.

If you record that vocal using mono setting you will only get one wave patterns in the track, and it will sound exactly the same as the stereo track does, unless you add some kind of stereo effect to that track that causes the two patterns to be phased differently, or such.

Some DAW programs actually allow you to record a simple mono input, especially where there is a mono source coming in like a vocal or guitar, and with any source you can send the left input to track 1 and the right to track2 and get true stereo

Last edited by Robh; 10/13/10 12:35 PM.
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