Do you guys sample in stereo or mono? I;ve always done mono just to save space on my HD.
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90% of the time you dont want to force a stereo track into mono. It'll create phasing problems, and you might lose the sound you wanted. So, chop the stereo version. Then seperate the left and right into their own mono files and lay them over top of each other. Redo the panning and phasing from there.

you use DC Offset before you do so.....as I understand it at least...

I might have misundertood...yes, sample first in stereo then change to mono depending on what the sample contains...
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Stereo, then if I need to i'll just take one channel, or I'll sum down to mono

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depends on what i'm sampling. sometimes i only want what's on 1 channel of the record. if i want it in sterero, i definitely do it.

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you can pick which channel you want to use afterwards. Or how much of each channel you want in the mix like (with panning) the poster above said.

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a lot of times shit is mixed in stereo, with some rhythm section isolated on one channel.

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is if it matters that it is in stereo.

Something that just sits in the middle I would just take in mono.


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it goes in to my sampler as stereo
why sample the stereo in stereo? lol
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> it goes in to my sampler as stereo
>why sample the stereo in stereo?


uhhhh............cause a lot of time it'll give you a fuller sound, and a lot of time there's different sounds in each channel.

if i sample somethin', i'm not goin' for the "different sounds"
i'm goin' for the overall feel of the sample
as far as fuller, eq and reverb and filters or whatever other tricks work

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>if i sample somethin', i'm not goin' for the "different
>sounds"

huh? What I mean is, the left channel might have a horn, and the right channel might have a bass, if you want both, you have to sample both channels.

>i'm goin' for the overall feel of the sample

then you would DEFINITELY want to sample in stero, otherwise you might not get some of the instrments

>as far as fuller, eq and reverb and filters or whatever other
>tricks work

but if it has the sound you want in stereo already, why go through the trouble of turning it to mono, then trying to re-create the fullness

Because some shit is mainly in one of two channels -- left or right. It all depends thought. A little bit of both.

Sometimes with mono samples, I'll duplicate it, run the same FX on both yet with slightly different settings for each, and set them halfway onto each channel.

Likewise, with a stereo sample coming in, if I want that wider sound, I'll let it ride stereo or even run it through an imager, or if I want to mush it down to make more room for other stuff I'll turn it mono.

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*edit....and not just 'cause you wanna save sample time either.

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I'm working on a computer so space isn't an issue so I usually get the loop I want all in stereo, then go back and chop it up, get stuff from one channel, etc. That way I have a full (stereo) backup of the sample on the computer, it's just easier/more flexible that way.

If I was using hardware with limited sample time it'd be a different story.

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the bassline might be mostly in the right channel. and the shakers might be ONLY in the left channel. when you sample in MONO, you will lose the option to bring the shakers in and out of the loop.

some of you are making it out to be a matter of preference. when its not that. if you always sample in MONO you are missing out on so much stuff. and you are not even utilising the recording to its full potential.
its one thing to sample in mono for the effect. but to ALWAYS sample in MONO, that just means you might not understand that instruments are rarely all panned dead centre.

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drums you should really sample in mono, unless its really different on both sides, and w drums theyre usually not