Hi guys,
I have a question about stereo imaging or the stereo spread. When mixing I often pan some things hard left or hard right, its just the way I like it sometimes. Anyway it seems to me that when I pan something hard left or hard right it goes too far left or right.
What I am after is simply to have the sound coming out of one speaker, for example just having a guitar part on the left. Still, it seems that when I hear records with this kind of panning, the instruments don't sound like they are all the way to the left or right, but they're still coming out of only one speaker.
Is it my imagination? Or do professional engineers use stereo imagers or some sort of processing to make something come out of one side but still have it sound fairly balanced instead of all the way to the side?
Anybody else dealt with this in the past?
BTW: I am using cubase and have the stereo pan law at -3db at the center.
I have a question about stereo imaging or the stereo spread. When mixing I often pan some things hard left or hard right, its just the way I like it sometimes. Anyway it seems to me that when I pan something hard left or hard right it goes too far left or right.
What I am after is simply to have the sound coming out of one speaker, for example just having a guitar part on the left. Still, it seems that when I hear records with this kind of panning, the instruments don't sound like they are all the way to the left or right, but they're still coming out of only one speaker.
Is it my imagination? Or do professional engineers use stereo imagers or some sort of processing to make something come out of one side but still have it sound fairly balanced instead of all the way to the side?
Anybody else dealt with this in the past?
BTW: I am using cubase and have the stereo pan law at -3db at the center.