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tmay
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can you explain to me what is meant when people saying panning and when and why do you use it. also can you explain recording in stereo and why.
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The Green Hornet
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AHA, Tmay or not Tmay? That is the question.
If you have a stereo system, you have two speakers: left/right.
If you record on a system, whatever, you have either a pan knob for each channel or a screen that gives you a window of PAN.
Let's say you want to move your "sax" solo a bit to the right of center. [You sit between the two speakers and when you pan right on the sax solo, the larger part of the sound of the sax comes out of the right speaker.]
In essence, that's STEREO. A left side and a right side and the center and degrees of left/right depending on how you like what you hear as you prepare the final tracks for a "mix."
So, if you have an 8 track recorder, you can pan each track left/right or in between or leave it in the center position. All of which, you can hear if you have a decent set up and some decent monitors. Actually, even terrible monitors should move the sound left/right if you direct it there.
Hope this helps you out brudda!
Green Hornet
If you have a stereo system, you have two speakers: left/right.
If you record on a system, whatever, you have either a pan knob for each channel or a screen that gives you a window of PAN.
Let's say you want to move your "sax" solo a bit to the right of center. [You sit between the two speakers and when you pan right on the sax solo, the larger part of the sound of the sax comes out of the right speaker.]
In essence, that's STEREO. A left side and a right side and the center and degrees of left/right depending on how you like what you hear as you prepare the final tracks for a "mix."
So, if you have an 8 track recorder, you can pan each track left/right or in between or leave it in the center position. All of which, you can hear if you have a decent set up and some decent monitors. Actually, even terrible monitors should move the sound left/right if you direct it there.
Hope this helps you out brudda!
Green Hornet
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c_r_a_z_y
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The Green Hornet has explained it!
Try listening to a track recorded in Mono and a track recorded in stereo on a decent pair of Headfones or sit central infront of a decent pair of mointors from a decent system and see the difference!
Stereo give u a sense of space and where about the instruments may sit on a stage etc!
All ver easy but can be very clever and the results are ace once u get it down to a fine art!
C ya
c_r_a_z_y
Try listening to a track recorded in Mono and a track recorded in stereo on a decent pair of Headfones or sit central infront of a decent pair of mointors from a decent system and see the difference!
Stereo give u a sense of space and where about the instruments may sit on a stage etc!
All ver easy but can be very clever and the results are ace once u get it down to a fine art!
C ya
c_r_a_z_y
PowerCouple
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hey Tmay...!
both guys above are right, but let me explain something else...
You asked: "Why stereo?" and it's really simple, because you have two ears.
Stereo will make you music sound more "comfortable" to your ears, as if you were sitting in an audience... not listening to an old radio.
Panning helps you give a balance between the two channels (ears).
For example: if you are in an audience, watching a stage performance, you will notice the sax player (I'm stealing Hornet's example) is standing on the right side of the stage, so the sound that comes from the sax arrives earlier at your right ear, and a little later to your left ear...that is what lets you know where that sound is coming from, that slight subtle and unnoticeable difference of time.
Try it...cover one ear entirely and try to identify with precission where sounds come from...left, right, center...
With panning you can "place" those instruments wherever you want on the sound landscape, making it more "live like" or putting everithing on one side just for fun (listen to the Beatles White album and Abbey Road carefully).
Notice that a stereo soundscape is composed mostly of mono elements, the stereo is the result of a mix and placement of those elements. So with pan you determine if a sound is centered, left or right or all of them, and you can manipulate the close/far positioning effect with the volume, that way it will sound more reallistic.
Hope this helps
Peace...
PC
both guys above are right, but let me explain something else...
You asked: "Why stereo?" and it's really simple, because you have two ears.
Stereo will make you music sound more "comfortable" to your ears, as if you were sitting in an audience... not listening to an old radio.
Panning helps you give a balance between the two channels (ears).
For example: if you are in an audience, watching a stage performance, you will notice the sax player (I'm stealing Hornet's example) is standing on the right side of the stage, so the sound that comes from the sax arrives earlier at your right ear, and a little later to your left ear...that is what lets you know where that sound is coming from, that slight subtle and unnoticeable difference of time.
Try it...cover one ear entirely and try to identify with precission where sounds come from...left, right, center...
With panning you can "place" those instruments wherever you want on the sound landscape, making it more "live like" or putting everithing on one side just for fun (listen to the Beatles White album and Abbey Road carefully).
Notice that a stereo soundscape is composed mostly of mono elements, the stereo is the result of a mix and placement of those elements. So with pan you determine if a sound is centered, left or right or all of them, and you can manipulate the close/far positioning effect with the volume, that way it will sound more reallistic.
Hope this helps
Peace...
PC
PowerCouple
New member
I forgot...
there are ways to record directly in stereo, placing two mics...simulating the ears. These techniques are based in the difference of time, volume (intensity) or both of them...
Peace...
PC
there are ways to record directly in stereo, placing two mics...simulating the ears. These techniques are based in the difference of time, volume (intensity) or both of them...
Peace...
PC
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The Green Hornet
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Yo HighPowered Coupled:
Neat addition to the thread's discussion. I wonder what we would invent if we had 3 ears?
A while back, a great while back, I had the pleasure of listening to Andre Segovia play at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. He used no mics -- the Hall is built in such a way that we, who were sitting at the very top of the hall, way back, could almost hear Andre breathe. Man, what sound came out of his fingers and guitar. This was kind of natural stereo -- your point -- two ears.
When the symphony band played, dynamite sound. Clear. Superb. Haven't heard anything like that hall's sound since.
I also remember listening to some of the first stereo radio broadcasts -- kind of hooked me on good sound when I was doing gigs in Chicago.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Green Hornet
Neat addition to the thread's discussion. I wonder what we would invent if we had 3 ears?
A while back, a great while back, I had the pleasure of listening to Andre Segovia play at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. He used no mics -- the Hall is built in such a way that we, who were sitting at the very top of the hall, way back, could almost hear Andre breathe. Man, what sound came out of his fingers and guitar. This was kind of natural stereo -- your point -- two ears.
When the symphony band played, dynamite sound. Clear. Superb. Haven't heard anything like that hall's sound since.
I also remember listening to some of the first stereo radio broadcasts -- kind of hooked me on good sound when I was doing gigs in Chicago.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Green Hornet