Farview
Well-known member
LCR is about panning, not where things end up in the stereo image. When using a stereo mic technique, the stereo image that it captures is preserved through hard panning the mics (or just panning a stereo track center). There is no reason to screw with it in order to (for example) get all the cymbals to be completely left or right). Doing that is a misinterpretation of what LCR mixing is.
LCR mixing was all you could do in the early days of stereo. Mixers didn't have pan pots, they had switches. Each channel was either left, right or center. With a stereo mic technique, one mic would be left, the other would be right. That preserved the stereo image.
LCR mixing was all you could do in the early days of stereo. Mixers didn't have pan pots, they had switches. Each channel was either left, right or center. With a stereo mic technique, one mic would be left, the other would be right. That preserved the stereo image.