Guitar ensemble panning

[hawk]

What's the best way to pan 3 guitar tracks? One is a bass line, one trebble, and one mid-range.

 

[HogansHiro]

bass guitar and two electrics or just three electrics playing three distinct parts/ranges?

What type of music?

Is it behind vocals?

neep more info and all the answers you're gonna get will be just stabs in the dark since we don't know the song.

 

[hawk]

3 nylon string guitars (classical music,) without vocals.

thanks

 

[tubesrawsom]

I think you should play around and pan anyway you like, paint your own picture. There is no wrong way to pan, just be creative and it will come.
Good luck,

 

[HogansHiro]

I personally would start with whichever guitar is the main melody at center and run the other two guitars one left one right about 50% and see how the spread sounded.

Just my two cents worth. A rule of thumb is that you want the attention track (vocals, melody,solo) centered to sit on top the mix.

 

[hawk]

I personally would start with whichever guitar is the main melody at center and run the other two guitars one left one right about 50% and see how the spread sounded.

Just my two cents worth. A rule of thumb is that you want the attention track (vocals, melody,solo) centered to sit on top the mix.

Thanks for the advice. That's what I wondered about....where you normallly put the centered track vs. the panned ones. I had the bass line centered then the other two panned L/R at about 30 which sounded okay. I'll try centering the trebble guitar which carries the main melody.