oooh... a thread about my favorite switch
first thing... in my testing, using mono doesn't do any favors for making things sound more 'listenable' at lower bitrates.. actually, I have preferred how stereo sounds at equalavant bitrates (stereo seems to mask some artifacts according to my ears)
* moving the lowpass frequency above the default will add a few kbps
* moving the lowpass frequency above the default with less than -q 0 (-q -1) isn't all that great
if you want to reduce the size, lowering the quality parameter is the only way (or use a lower sample rate), I would try to keep it -q -.5 or higher (unless you use less than a 26khz samplerate)
I could be of more help if I knew what your target bitrate was

I'm not sure what the bitrate is around with -q 0 mono @32000hz.. so I don't know where to start