Robbie Robertson

One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono.

Canadian Musician

Bonobo

I often use a return channel to get some shape out of the bass. It's a good way to split the frequencies of the bass so that the sub bass is clean and in mono and the higher end of the bass sound can be filtered off - have it on an audio channel and that's where you can use effects.

British Musician

Dean Potter

My fear is with the onset of mainstream interest in extreme sports that diversity will be subdued and eventually snubbed out within our great outdoor community. Shouldn't we question when the leaders of our community try to manipulate our culture into a mono crop?

American Athlete

Caroline Polachek

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.

American Musician

Matt Haig

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

British Novelist

Sam Raimi

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

American Director

Understand that 'mono' can refer to older or stylistic audio formats.

Audio Formats

'Mono' in music may sound less rich than 'stereo'.

Modern Usage

Look for 'mono-' paired with other roots to indicate singularity.

Combination Clues

Sometimes 'mono-' can imply limitation or lack of diversity.

Negative Connotation

'Mono' can refer to an illness that causes fatigue and requires rest.

Sickness Context

In casual conversation, 'mono' is commonly understood as the illness.

Colloquial Use

Remember, 'mono' meaning 'monkey' is specific to Spanish speakers.

Language Specific

Monkeys are often viewed as clever and playful in Latin culture.

Cultural Context

The Japanese 'mono' as 'boring' captures a subtle negative feeling.

Cultural Nuance

Use 'mono' in casual Japanese conversations, not formal ones.

Informal Language

 separating peanut butter we're going to need direct from nature versions of both hydrogenated veggie aisles and mono and diglycerides now chemically hydrogenated veggie oil were pretty close to butter but out of respect for vegetarians vegans and those among us who are lactose intolerant I'm going to use cocoa butter which comes from plants and

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 knew could help the texture of the cucumbers and from an environmental point of view it would be less detrimental for what you did have to put out in waste then sodium chloride would be fortunately it was able to begin to work with mono a pickle company and they were willing to help us with doing some

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 one at dusk is something to behold now we're using a special low-light camera so it appears a lot brighter than it actually is now I can only just faintly make the world to be starts in front of us let's stop here this time ahead of us here mono may be stone these front ones just not just a

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 that it's virtually impossible to imagine a world without them, but what the heck are they? Polymers are large molecules made of small units called monomers linked together like the railroad cars from a train. Poly means many, and mono means one, and mers or mero means parts.

From DNA to Silly Putty,...

 both of those options are important so strengths and experience can be useful in both situations I mean obviously the stronger you are the easier it is but experience was her help so you see smaller male lipids if you look in mono

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 both a kind of gentle, transient sadness as things pass by in life, but also a deeper, softly lingering sadness about the impermanence of all reality. "Mono no aware" can be manifest in lots of life stories and moments and songs.

"Afterneath" / "Killing...

 and once you add this mono jack any hundreds of accessibility switches can be added to the toy for accessibility once added the child could then use her foot her head or even make a simple aluminum-foil switch to make the car go

Accessible fart machines...

 one in mono, and one in stereo. And the one in mono, by the way, he used the pedal, and as he got older, he said, "No, no, wait a minute. I'm going to get very scientific about this, and not use the pedal."

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 focusing on just one task, or maybe turning your digital senses totally off. So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product. Why not? So find your monotask spot within the multitasking world.

Paolo Cardini: Forget...

 to if you burn it and plant a mono crop because that is the alternative so in order for this little family to have life to have a good life we have to determine in these countries Indonesia

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