I posted the opposite workflow question a while back. When I take two stereo tracks, dialoge, vo , effects etc.... and create a mono audio mixdown I drop the resulting track -6db. This has been confirmed on this list. When I take a mono track and want to make it stereo do I drop the mono track -6db when going to each stereo track? I know it won't be a stereo signal but in my case I have stereo music stems but only a mono effects stem. I want to create a "stereo" M & E track so before mixing down the mono effects with each stereo music track I'm dropping the effects track -6db. If I feed my little behringer mixboard 0 tone with it panned full left or right when I pan to the center each track rides about -6db as best I can tell from the led meter so I'm pretty sure I'm correct. I've read that the audio ballistics of pan pots can have different curves in fact I think some of the digital boards even let you decide how the pan pots sum a
signal in the center but that really doesn't seem to apply to my situation. So is -6db the magic number in this case? My high school math and electronics class seems like a long time ago every time I deal with logs.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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