12-03-2016, 02:56 AM
I don't care too much about mono compatibility in general, even in my own mixes.
That being said, I was just pointing out that inverting the polarity of one channel of a stereo track is possibly the worst thing that you could do in that regard. I pointed this especially in the context of a commercial mix, because I believe these things still matter today, whether you like it or not.
Not everyone is listening to music in the best possible conditions, one could even argue that more and more people listen on small PC speakers, even laptop or phone speakers (!)... But even with good speakers, not many people stay in the sweet spot, so what they are hearing is mostly mono...
You could say it's their loss, but if you're working in a real world situation where you need to deliver for the vast majority of environments, that's the kind of things to keep an ear on...
That being said, I was just pointing out that inverting the polarity of one channel of a stereo track is possibly the worst thing that you could do in that regard. I pointed this especially in the context of a commercial mix, because I believe these things still matter today, whether you like it or not.
Not everyone is listening to music in the best possible conditions, one could even argue that more and more people listen on small PC speakers, even laptop or phone speakers (!)... But even with good speakers, not many people stay in the sweet spot, so what they are hearing is mostly mono...
You could say it's their loss, but if you're working in a real world situation where you need to deliver for the vast majority of environments, that's the kind of things to keep an ear on...
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." - Frank Zappa
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