When I was in college, one of the first things we learned was about bouncing midi to audio. Our instructor told us to just bounce everything to its own stereo audio track. That was more than a year ago. Flash forward to today, I'm working with several tracks that I've bounced to stereo, and finding things difficult to mix/pan. Come to find out that apparently not everyone bounces everything that way.
Now I'm confused. Are there certain things that should be bounced as stereo and some as mono? Or should I instead use two mono tracks panned hard left and right and skip the stereo tracks altogether? And what am I supposed to group together if anything?
Here's a sort of description of what I'm working with to put it into perspective:
-Vibes (sort of a rhythm/main meat of the song
-Crash cymbal
-Hi hat
-Snare
-Kick
-Bass
-Elec Piano
-Pad (Atmospheric I guess is the word I'd use)
-Square lead (Which never sits right in the mix at all, which is where a lot of problems are right now)
Now I'm confused. Are there certain things that should be bounced as stereo and some as mono? Or should I instead use two mono tracks panned hard left and right and skip the stereo tracks altogether? And what am I supposed to group together if anything?
Here's a sort of description of what I'm working with to put it into perspective:
-Vibes (sort of a rhythm/main meat of the song
-Crash cymbal
-Hi hat
-Snare
-Kick
-Bass
-Elec Piano
-Pad (Atmospheric I guess is the word I'd use)
-Square lead (Which never sits right in the mix at all, which is where a lot of problems are right now)