dachay2tnr
One Hit Wonder
I read an interesting article yesterday on the web. Part of it was discussing reverb. It said that in a natural environment we hear the "direct" sound directionally from the source it eminates from, but since reverb is reflected back at us from walls and ceilings, it is heard by the ears as coming from another direction (or actually a lot of other directions).
It then went on to state that in using aritificial reverb, one should pan the reverb differently than the direct sound to better emulate what happens in the natural environment.
This all makes sense to me, but is exactly the opposite of what I have been doing. Let's say I have three tracks of backing vocals. I normally might pan them 35%L, 15%L and 35%R. Then put a reverb on a Bus and pan the track bus sends the same the the track panning.
So if I wanted to try the above suggestion, how would you all pan the bus sends. Would you go exactly the opposite of the track pan - i.e., Track Pan 35%L, bus pan 35%R - or something different than that.
Curious as to your thoughts on this, and why.
Mike
It then went on to state that in using aritificial reverb, one should pan the reverb differently than the direct sound to better emulate what happens in the natural environment.
This all makes sense to me, but is exactly the opposite of what I have been doing. Let's say I have three tracks of backing vocals. I normally might pan them 35%L, 15%L and 35%R. Then put a reverb on a Bus and pan the track bus sends the same the the track panning.
So if I wanted to try the above suggestion, how would you all pan the bus sends. Would you go exactly the opposite of the track pan - i.e., Track Pan 35%L, bus pan 35%R - or something different than that.
Curious as to your thoughts on this, and why.
Mike
