center vs. doubling

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AlienRage

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is there any difference between keeping a track in the center and putting the track in twice: hard left and hard right?
 
by putting the same track in twice, then you are in effect doubling the amplitude... by centering it, i believe you are kind of sharing the output between the two channels. so yes, there will be a difference between just centering and putting two identical tracks on the left and right. either will still result in a mono signal. someone will correct me if i'm wrong.
 
usually panning left and right is used with either two different takes of the same part or one side with a little bit of delay, otherwise, panning one left and one right just makes it louder.
 
AlienRage said:
is there any difference between keeping a track in the center and putting the track in twice: hard left and hard right?
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The only difference is volume and hard drive space.
 
Putting a dupe track hard left and right isn't smart. Major waste of hard drive space. You can achieve the same effect by bumping the volume of it centered by +3db.

Personally I never hard pan ANYTHING.
 
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