[ddots-l] Re: Thoughts on panning?

  • From: "kurt Streuber" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:08:32 -0700

It really depends on the effect you're trying to achieve.  Mixing on headphones 
is so different from mixing for speakers, because you can pan all the way to 
one side and it'll still fill the room when you're using speakers.  If you are 
only using headphones, your mixes will sometimes have to be pulled in towards 
the center in order to give you proper spacial reference.  Even in mixing for 
conventional speakers, I never pan completely to one side.  I like to have one 
guitar track on each side, for rhythm stuff, and usually keys are stereo, then 
bass is center.  Drums I like to mix from drummer's perspective, where highhats 
are on the left slightly, along with the high tom.  Drum overheads you can 
usually pan pretty hard, but the toms, you want to keep a bit more centered.  
With vocals, I like to have the lead near center, and fill in with backups on 
either side, to fill it out.  
Just my humble thoughts, hope it helps.
Kurt

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James Malone 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:29 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Thoughts on panning?


  Hi Stephanie ,
  Sometimes its good to hear different angles of panning, such as a b3 effect.
  It seems like all your keyboards already has a panning feature that you can 
hear in your head phones.
  When I'm either sitting or riding I like to check out a mix from a 
prerecorded track, and listen to some automated mixes such as panning EQ, and 
effect changes.
  Its really up to your imagination.
  To answer your question, I think panning at various degrees such as 25 
percent left or 45 percent right is good, depending on how much sound you want 
out of each speaker. I like to think about how I would look hearing a drummer 
facing the drums.
  Placement is sometimes a good thing, and in my case of playing b3 organ, I 
like the stereo effect of two lessleys, even though I only have 1.

                      James 




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  From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Stephanie Pieck
  Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:40 AM
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [ddots-l] Thoughts on panning?


  While I think the effects of panning are really cool, I'm curious to know 
what other people think of this question.  If you are creating music that might 
be listened to using headphones, what is the most extreme panning you would 
use?  For instance, if you have two electric guitar tracks or drum tracks, and 
you want to highlight the interplay between them by placing them on opposite 
sides of the mix, how far to the left and right is too far?

  Thanks for any ideas.

  Stephanie

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