Nola
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During the intro, the drums are panned hard right, guitar hard left, but in the left there's also a tambourine...sounds great to me. Is this common? I can't remember ever hearing something like this.
Papanate
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The drums are not panned hard right and the guitar is not panned hard left - I don’t hear a tamborine - something weird is going on with the mix too - the spatial alignment sounds like it was screwed with. - the instrumentation is a blurry distorted mess - keyboards, guitar etc…just slop - vocals are okay.
DM60
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I will be honest, it is so sparse, I am not sure that it sounds that radical.
DM60
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Nola
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Lol. Okay. Something is wrong with your system. This is a professional band from Scottland.
Definitely panned hard right. I turned off the right speaker, and there was nothing in the left other than a tambourine.
Papanate
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This is interesting - but the third time I played the song it was aligned as you said it was - so maybe the encoder doesn’t work correctly everytime.
As to your original point - I‘ve heard all kinds of mixers through the years - there isn’t anything special about this to me - people are trying to get attention
so maybe this is their way to get people to talk about the band,
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DM60
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I will also state that it sounded funky on my system as well. I am not listening on good speakers.
Gtoboy
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Listen to old Steve Miller, Stevie Wonder , etc (original recordings). The panning is all over the place. Steve Miller learned from Les Paul and this helped me realize that what we now think of as 'conventional' panning is just not necessary if you can arrange frequency hierarchy and part staging. And there is no way I would criticize anything Stevie Wonder did.
I spent a lot of time doing critical listening on ear buds (Sony wired earbuds, no longer found IME) where the loss of space and extreme separation should cause a mix to sound 'unbalanced' according to modern criteria. But it doesn't. Arrangement, as in most mix issues, is the key IMHO.
I spent a lot of time doing critical listening on ear buds (Sony wired earbuds, no longer found IME) where the loss of space and extreme separation should cause a mix to sound 'unbalanced' according to modern criteria. But it doesn't. Arrangement, as in most mix issues, is the key IMHO.
Nola
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Awesome post. Yeah I agree.