Mono Vs Stereo Room Mic

Stereo or stereophonic sound is the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels in a way that creates the impression of sound heard from various directions as in natural hearing mono monaural or monophonic sound reproduction has audio in a single channel often centered in the sound field.

Mono vs stereo room mic. Stereo microphones stereo microphones have two microphone elements and are designed to give you a wider more immersive sound field than mono microphones. Mono microphones also known as directional microphones put very simply a mono microphone uses a single microphone capsule to record a single track of audio. Stereo microphones stereo microphones have two microphone elements and are designed to give you a wider more immersive sound field than mono microphones. This one capsule is almost always facing forward designed to be pointed at the desired sound source and for this reason mono microphones are also known as directional microphones.

If you record in mono then copy and paste that recording into a new track it will just make the recording louder rather than fuller. Mono microphones can also pick up sounds at a greater distance than stereo microphones again because their pickup pattern is more focused and extraneous noise is reduced. I enjoy a mono room mic anywhere from 6 20 feet back 4 10 feet high dead center on the drums. Keep in mind duplicating a mono recording will not make it a stereo recording.

Any distant stereo image i need can be achieved with pzm mics on the floor or walls or by using a figure 8 ribbon for overheads or a combination of all of that.