Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

Enabling Force to Mono for 3D sounds

Enabling the Force to Mono setting on a stereo audio file will mix together the data from both audio channels into a single channel, saving 50 percent of the file's total disk and memory space usage effectively. Enabling this option is generally not a good idea for some 2D sound effects, where the stereo effect is often used to create a specific audio experience; however, we can enable this option for some good space savings on 3D positional audio clips, where the two channels are effectively identical. These audio source types will let the direction between the audio source and the player determine how the audio file gets played into the left/right ear, and playing a stereo effect in this case is generally ...