Fun with Panning

[Rich606]

Any good panning ideas? like backup vocals.

 

[Ironklad Audio]

close your eyes and turn the knob until it sounds like you want it to

 

[TexRoadkill]

Sometimes I pan to the right, other times to the left. But that's just how I roll.

 

[DBA]

Panning means everything...;-)

For me it's not just putting things to the left or right! I also have an eye on getting the things to the front or the back by eqing and reverb.

Try to get a little delay on your background vocals, spread this in the pan. Take some light plate reverb with it and it should sound pretty deep and add detail to your track...

 

[RAMI]

Panning means everything...;-)

For me it's not just putting things to the left or right! I also have an eye on getting the things to the front or the back by eqing and reverb.

Try to get a little delay on your background vocals, spread this in the pan. Take some light plate reverb with it and it should sound pretty deep and add detail to your track...

Well, if "panning is EVERYTHING", why do you need to add delay and reverb????

 

[omtayslick]

Well, if "panning is EVERYTHING", why do you need to add delay and reverb????

You sir are a literalist.

 

[RAMI]

You sir are a literalist.

Thanx. I've been called worse.

 

[cusebassman]

Just another one of those things that you can't really be explained... nothing holds true for every song... maybe aside from keeping bass instruments down the middle and moving other things around... in fiddling with mixes, moving electric bass, bass drum, etc, out of the center makes things feel lopsided somehow...

 

[Ironklad Audio]

i dunno...there's some pretty big-time mix engineers who like to clear out some "space" in the middle by panning the bass and kick a hair to the L or R

 

[cusebassman]

Welp, its this very forum where I've read about leaving those things somewhere around center... a little to one side or the other is probably fine... but noticeably to one side?

I guess like anything else there are no hard and fast rules... go with what sounds right to you!

 

[mixsit]

i dunno...there's some pretty big-time mix engineers who like to clear out some "space" in the middle by panning the bass and kick a hair to the L or R

Or pan the kit up mono. It's a whole 'nother version -focused-punchy-
I don't end up mono all that often, but one should definitely have that sound in the box. If nothing else, to being open to going 'tighter in.