Disco sound

[discobobby]

Can anyone help.............we use a stereo amplifier but when i play mono tracks,ie 60's tracks you can sometimes only hear the words and the music faint in the background. Does anyone know a way i could overcome this as i do not have a mono/stereo switch on the mixer.

Thanks
Bob

[VHG]

Sounds like you are picking up only one channel of the stero mix. Maybe they say they are mono but are in fact stereo.

Many early 60s stereo songs had vocals in one channel and the instruments in the other (the Beatles "All my Loving" was like that).

[Hopkirk]

What do you play these 'mono' tracks on?

As VHG says, they are not mono tracks. They are mono tracks that have been split into two to give a poor version of stereo.

If they are recordings, then whoever recorded them only took one of the left or right channels.

If they are on a turntable, you are only getting one channel, but don't realise it when you play true stereo music.

[ChuckFickens]

The other possibility is they are mono recordings being played back through two speakers and one of your speakers is connected the wrong way round so the waveforms are cancelling each other out.