﻿ What is Mono Recording?  What is Mono Recording?  Mono Audio
Mono recording is recording that is done on one single channel.
This is in contrast to stereo recording, which is recording done
on two separate channels composing of left and right sound
inputs.  Mono recording is the most commonly used type of
recording. Although it may seem like stereo recording may always
be the better option to record in, since there are two channels
of left and right sound inputs instead of only the one which
mono uses, for many applications, recording in stereo is
completely unnecessary. Mono recording is used a great deal of
the time, especially when a user is recording static speech.
Dynamic music, for the most part, almost always uses stereo to
record all the different elements in music to create the
surround sound effect, but for static applications, such as when
using dictating speech in speech recognition programs or when
recording a plain text message, mono is used, with stereo
offering no further advantage.  Mono r