ABSTRACT
There is a difference between mixing in a commercial studio and mixing at home. Studio engineers are normally restricted by deadlines. But there is very little to restrict the home producer from mixing one production for a whole month. Solo buttons let people listen in isolation to specific tracks. A useful function all right, but one that can be very easily misused, especially by the novice, who might spend too much time mixing isolated tracks. One of the problems in using solos is that people lose a reference to the mix. Mixes are often checked in mono. It might seem odd that with the increasing popularity of surround systems, mono is still taken into account. Many studios have a single speaker installed for mono listening. Mono listening also helps in evaluating the stereo aspects of people's mix, that is, by switching between mono and stereo.
