Reverb & Panning

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Example:

A mono signal, lets say a guitar, panned L50....

There a send going to an stereo aux track, which has a reverb plug-in on it...

My question is whether or not it makes sense to pan the send to L50, so the reverb "originates" from the same place as the dry track....

I don't think panning the stereo aux track would be as good, since it would bias the reverb channel's panning... If I were sending multiple vocal tracks, panned to different angles, wouldn't I want them panned at the "send" step?

Thanks...
 
peritus said:
Example:

A mono signal, lets say a guitar, panned L50....

There a send going to an stereo aux track, which has a reverb plug-in on it...

My question is whether or not it makes sense to pan the send to L50, so the reverb "originates" from the same place as the dry track....

I don't think panning the stereo aux track would be as good, since it would bias the reverb channel's panning... If I were sending multiple vocal tracks, panned to different angles, wouldn't I want them panned at the "send" step?

Thanks...
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I think a lot of the early Van Halen albums had Ed's guitar on the left and the reverb on the right. It sounded pretty cool.
 
HangDawg said:
I think a lot of the early Van Halen albums had Ed's guitar on the left and the reverb on the right. It sounded pretty cool.
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Yeah.. I know what you mean.. Cool stuff.. I've done that with synths before..

I guess I'm just wondering if my idea holds any water....
 
peritus said:
Yeah.. I know what you mean.. Cool stuff.. I've done that with synths before..

I guess I'm just wondering if my idea holds any water....
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I would say it might depending on the reverb. Some reverbs sum the inputs to mono before processing and in that case panning the send would have no effect. However if the reverb doesn't sum the inputs, it might. Only way to tell with your particular reverb is to try it and see.
 
iqi616 said:
I would say it might depending on the reverb. Some reverbs sum the inputs to mono before processing and in that case panning the send would have no effect. However if the reverb doesn't sum the inputs, it might. Only way to tell with your particular reverb is to try it and see.
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exactly. it depends if the input to your reverb is mono or stereo (ie is it mono->stereo or stereo->stereo).

If the input is mono, then there's not point in panning. if the input is stereo, then pan away as you see fit.
 
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