Splitting or panning Guitars?

[D_Vincent]

I dont pan guitars Hard left or right at 100%...I agree with whoever said to use what sounds best.

If you have like 6 guitar tracks you cant pan them all left or right 100%...you have to experiment and see where they sound best.

I usually leave the 100% panning for other things like maybe drum overheads or room drum reverb or backup vocals.

My main guitars I usually pan at like 95 % left and right...95% sounds fulller than 100% to my ears.

Then I usually pan the next set of guitars at 31 % left and right (not a rule but it works for me.

Then I just pan the rest of guitar tracks where they sound best...lead guitar I just move around untill I like where it sounds.

Panning guitars hard left and right doesnt sound that great to me...I always bring them in just a bit.

 

[Chibi Nappa]

I dont pan guitars Hard left or right at 100%...I agree with whoever said to use what sounds best.

I always go with what sounds best. To my ears, that is LCR. Throw on some headphones and listen to huge hits from any stereo decade including right now. There is a reason so many of them are LCR.

 

[Atom Bomb]

I always go with what sounds best..

Exaclty...

I was more referring to the advice that 'always do this'

There is no always.

Do what you like and what is an expression of how you want it to sound.

I will agree that hard panning has it's merits. But personally i don't like the 100% pan.

Just me.


But yea, "always do this" was a bit of a stretch.

 

[LAWL_im_so_EMO]

I'm gonna' guess that what LAWL_im_so_EMO said was a bit of a troll and should not be taken seriously...

But I really do like a full pan wayyyyy more than something panned part of the way...for anything in the mix. But LCR is a post for another day.

i really am being serious.

 

[philbagg]

i really am being serious.

And what's your opinion of our responses? Technically - whether or not you think we're being smartasses is another thing

Are you still dead set on your "formula"?

 

[kcearl]

hard pan them, cut the frequencies...jobs a good un! lol

 

[Chibi Nappa]

i really am being serious.

always pan guitars 100 percent left and right.
always double track rhythm guitars.

There is much to be said for guitars panned center. There is much to be said for single rhythm guitars. Muse gets a giant sound on the first song of their new album with a single bass and single guitar, both panned dead center. Funky grooves also love a single guitar. Listen to some Chile Peppers.

For tricky leads, just do one take and duplicate it.

That doesn't do anything but double the volume.