esactun
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(Granted, Tull was not this heavy... )
What are y'all's favorite/preferred/usual way of panning guitar tracks for aggressive music? Do you hard-pan left and right? Or pan maybe 75% each way? A combination of both, to make each guitar "wider"? For metal, hard rock, whatever.
On "Sewn Mouth Secrets," Soilent Green's producer seems to have tracks hard-panned and then doubled closer to the center (75%, as a guess), or so it seems from the intro riffs. But Terrorizer sounded fine with very hard panning-- there seems to be no left-channel axe bleeding or reverbing or whatever into the right channel at all (and vice versa).
I tend to prefer hearing not-so-hard panning, it seems to help thicken things, but can step on the vox and drums. Hard-panning seems artificial, too wide of a stereo field, but can help keep things clear (especially with super-fast bands). The combo idea seems like a good way to get the best of both. But it is harder to mix, and spreading the guitars around can thin them out somewhat (hence those 12-guitar mixes! )... <end babble>
Whaddaya think?? Actually, whaddaya do?
What are y'all's favorite/preferred/usual way of panning guitar tracks for aggressive music? Do you hard-pan left and right? Or pan maybe 75% each way? A combination of both, to make each guitar "wider"? For metal, hard rock, whatever.
On "Sewn Mouth Secrets," Soilent Green's producer seems to have tracks hard-panned and then doubled closer to the center (75%, as a guess), or so it seems from the intro riffs. But Terrorizer sounded fine with very hard panning-- there seems to be no left-channel axe bleeding or reverbing or whatever into the right channel at all (and vice versa).
I tend to prefer hearing not-so-hard panning, it seems to help thicken things, but can step on the vox and drums. Hard-panning seems artificial, too wide of a stereo field, but can help keep things clear (especially with super-fast bands). The combo idea seems like a good way to get the best of both. But it is harder to mix, and spreading the guitars around can thin them out somewhat (hence those 12-guitar mixes! )... <end babble>
Whaddaya think?? Actually, whaddaya do?
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