How To Mono Everything Below 130Hz On Master?

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When you set it like this ^^^ then it will simply mix Left and Right channels together into a mono signal. The result is exactly the same as if you had manually done this yourself using other techniques. There’s no voodoo magic or special algorithms taking place here, so you can for sure safely use this to mono your signal. In fact, it will quickly reveal any phase problems when you do so, because you will typically notice quite a big drop in volume if you mono mix a stereo signal that is badly out of phase, since the Left and Right channels will cancel each other out a bit. So if you mono your bass and you don’t hear a big drop in volume, then you’re already on the right path

This! This helps soooo much!! .

Got a 5 paragraph email back from a mastering engineer who was asking me to do something about
-phasing, some sounds only being on the side and nothing in the mid ((it’s interesting that KMaki has done some work relating to mid-side-tools for Renoise, on a Renoise-related no))
-overall 70hz boxiness on the bass and also the drums being too far away in the mix resulting in issues when playing on heavy duty rigs
-how some elemenets would vanish completely when played on any mono device (rig,broadcast,etc)

then he linked a pc+osx free vst tool for doing the stereo->mono, which is around after which i came here.

either way, since the Stereo Expander does not allow for it’s 3rd parameter to be toggled (Left,Right,Left+Right), only the first two are named in ```

rprint (renoise.song().selected_track.devices[2].parameters[1].name)
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rprint (renoise.song().selected_track.devices[2].parameters[2].name)
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