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<blockquote data-quote="Evan Kirkendall" data-source="post: 47860" data-attributes="member: 5">Re: To Pan...or Not To Pan....My goal is to have every seat in the house hear the exact same show. So, panning something hard left or hard right is out of the question for me. But, I do a little trick called delay panning. My mix is &quot;stereo,&quot; but mono at the same time. This really only works on digital desks, so if you&#039;re analog, you&#039;re SOL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I&#039;ve got 3 guitars to deal with in my mix. So, I&#039;ll take my lead guitar, assign it to 2 channels, and pan them 30% each way. Then I&#039;ll delay the left channel by say .3 or so ms. Just enough to widen it up a little in the mix, and make more room for vocals. It creates the illusion of panning, without actually being louder on one side than the other. My 2nd guitar will get panned 60% each way, and then I&#039;ll delay the right channel the same. 3rd guitar just stays on 1 mono channel panned center. This really makes room for the guitars in the mix to &quot;sit&quot; comfortably, and then let other stuff really pop in my mix, without over EQ&#039;ing or pushing the levels too much. It sounds really cool down the middle of the room, and sounds balanced for the rest of the crowd. Evan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evan Kirkendall, post: 47860, member: 5"] Re: To Pan...or Not To Pan.... My goal is to have every seat in the house hear the exact same show. So, panning something hard left or hard right is out of the question for me. But, I do a little trick called delay panning. My mix is "stereo," but mono at the same time. This really only works on digital desks, so if you're analog, you're SOL. :) I've got 3 guitars to deal with in my mix. So, I'll take my lead guitar, assign it to 2 channels, and pan them 30% each way. Then I'll delay the left channel by say .3 or so ms. Just enough to widen it up a little in the mix, and make more room for vocals. It creates the illusion of panning, without actually being louder on one side than the other. My 2nd guitar will get panned 60% each way, and then I'll delay the right channel the same. 3rd guitar just stays on 1 mono channel panned center. This really makes room for the guitars in the mix to "sit" comfortably, and then let other stuff really pop in my mix, without over EQ'ing or pushing the levels too much. It sounds really cool down the middle of the room, and sounds balanced for the rest of the crowd. Evan [/QUOTE]

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