vox hard panned

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I know I read where it is best to have vox straight in the centre of the mix.. but sometimes I hear vox that seem to be coming from both sides..

is this simply a matter of making a duplicate of the vox track and panning each out? or is there sometihng else?
 
Since I don't know exactly what you heard it's hard to speculate, however, a common technique (although mainly used for things like guitar) is to pan the original sound to one side and pan a processed track of the asme sound to the other side.

Noramally this is done by sending the original signal to a processor via the effects send and then bringing it back on a different channel on the board.

It is also common to pan background vocals hard left and hard right
 
lascalaboy said:
I know I read where it is best to have vox straight in the centre of the mix.. but sometimes I hear vox that seem to be coming from both sides..

is this simply a matter of making a duplicate of the vox track and panning each out? or is there sometihng else?
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Most likely a short delay is being used on the vocal, panned to both sides with potentially different delay times for each side.
 
It could be a vocal spreader. It is a pitch shifting effect where the voc is shifted up 10 cents on one side and 10 cents down on the other.
 
I'm with mastering house. Most likely you are hearing doubled vocals and panned a bit with a sprinkle of delay. Vocal "meat" as I have come to know it
 
Or just, plain old doubled vocals, as in two separate takes, hard panned. Very common in pop music.
 
jimi hendrix had unusual panning scenarious, where the vocals were panned hard, and guitar etc...
 
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