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Looking at the three main panning areas

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Looking at the three main panning areas

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One of the most taken-for-granted elements in mixing pertains to the placement of the sound element in the stereo field, otherwise known as panning. In this video, I'm going to show you how panning can create excitement by adding movement within the stereo field as well as adding clarity to an instrument by moving it out of the way of other sounds. The first thing is a stereo provides a sense of spaciousness, and that's what panning is giving us. It's giving us the spaciousness and as a result, we're also getting some clarity out of it as well. The thing about panning though is there are three main fields that we have and that's hard left, hard right, and in the center. Now what happens when we pan something in the center is the sound is coming out of both speakers at the same time, in an equal amount, and that gives us a solid feel to the track. So what we try to do is anything with a lot of low end we try to put into the middle. So for instance, listen to one track of the bass…

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