:confused: Recording Question

[drumur]

In SONAR PRODUCER, on each track there is a stereo/mono switch.
To achieve a stereo recording , which one should I use?
I assumed that mono was to be used with mono instruments and stereo for stereo instruments (such as Keyboards) .
I always keep my bus and effect sends on stereo, but I figured that by having individual tracks on mono, I could use pan to determine where they are heard in the stereo field.
Also, If I creat submixes, and I bus effects to the submix, do I have to route the effect bus, line out, to the sub. If I don't , the instruments on the sub are heard when I mute the tracks or the sub.
I hope I don't sound too ignorant for the high tech types.

[Bops2000]

What I do is record tracks in mono,(click the little icon in the track to mono, or use console view, which I love).
You ar correct, what you will do is send that track to a sub mix, which you will name.
It really makes sense in the console view..
Lets say Tracks 1 through 6 are drum tracks, all in mono panned at 12 o clock.
I assign the output on each track to a sub-mix called drums.
Now we have 'pan-able' tracks in each track on the left of the board, as well as a master SUBMIX pan, (right side of the console 'board' and stereo faders that will then go to the master, in which we can send other tracks from sub mix setups.
The idea here is that on each individual SUBMIX we can apply effects at that point.
For example, we can add some reverb to the drum mix sub group to give the kit some depth, we can compress the bass guitar subgroup individually.
Lastly, with running sub groups, you can control multiple takes/tracks of the same instrument, ride the faders for automation, then send off to master..
Hope I made a little sense.
If you want I'll dig up a screen shot of a console view a tune we did.

added note... I will do my stereo analog synths in stereo tracking sometimes because of the doppler effect of some of them, but that is rare.

If you are running stereo keys, then slit them to two tracks.