What is the difference between mono and stereo?

Question

The local stereo place said my amp was overheating so they hooked my subs and amp up stereo instaed of mono and now it sounds like **** can i get some help how to hook it up mono or some other suggestions,

Answer 1

If you want it simple. stereo sounds uses two or more sources and one ground and mono uses one source and one ground or two source joined together and one ground.



More clarification?



Mono is a sound coming from one source or one resonator. Like A guitar which can produce different sound by plucking strings or drumming the body. But guitar is only a single resonator.



Stereo is coming from two or more source or two or more resonator. for example, an orchestra has a sound comes from different instrument. And every instrument has one resonator. What you hear in your left ear is not exactly what you hear in you right ear.



In headphones.



Stereo headphones, What you hear in one ear is not exactly what you hear in the other ear.



Mono headphones, What you hear in the one ear is also the same in the other ear.



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Answer 2

Mono Vs Stereo

Answer 3

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In general terms, "mono" (monaural) is a single channel vs stereo (stereophonic) which is 2 channels. With regards to your volume pedal, the stereo pedal splits the input from your guitar into 2 outputs. You'd mainly use this if you were running two amps. The way that works is you'd run a single cable from your guitar into the pedal. The volume pedal would have 2 outputs so you could run a cable to the input of each amp. Both signals would be identical, but you might have the amps set differently. If your amp has more than one channel with separate inputs, you could plug into both channels but there's not much advantage to this unless it's a true stereo amp. The mono pedal is probably all you need. Plug your guitar into it, and then plug the pedal into your amp. If you ever feel the need to drag around 2 amps, you can always buy a signal splitter. There's no disadvantage to having a stereo pedal...you can use it as mono. It's just a matter of paying for features you may never use.

Answer 4

Dunno what ernie ball vp means but imma tell u what mono and stereo mean in context of sound: mono means that through all the available speakers, like through both L and R of a headphone, ull hear the same sound stereo means each speaker emits different sound to create an effect of depth, for eg when ur sitting in a cinema hall, if in the movie a collision occurs on the left of the screen, the majority of the sound of the collision will be emitted by the speakers located in the left. Though in case of cinema hall, there are a LOT of speakers, but if you consider the case of a headphone, u hv just 2, left and right, this is called 2 channel stereo these days home theatres are accompanied by set of 5 speakers, called 5.1 channel stereo speakers. Hope u get the idea :)

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What is the difference between mono and stereo?

The local stereo place said my amp was overheating so they hooked my subs and amp up stereo instaed of mono and now it sounds like **** can i get some help how to hook it up mono or some other suggestions,

Answer 6

Well i have always understood stereo to be when sound signals are split into left and right and two (or more) speakers reproduce the sound rather than one speaker reproducing the sound which would be mono.

Wiring an amp into stereo makes absolutely no sense at all. I would head back to the local place and ask whoever set it up what they are talking about and possibly get them to fix there mess up.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

I believe that your amp was bridged to run at 2 ohms, you will get more power but the amp has to work harder and so it overheats. They have changed it to run using 2 channels at 4 ohms so you are getting less power which is why you say it sounds like ****.

If it was overheating before then don't put it back. You may need a better amp, without any information on your set up it is impossible to give you a solution.