The logic is that since bass generally takes up so much room in a mix and it's considered a backbone of a track, any amount of panning makes a mix lopsided. However, your splitting the signal into dual mono kind of negates that logic. The only reason other I can think of not to do it, aside from the vinyl issue already pointed out, is that spreading the bass out like that may bury the track and leave little room in the mix for other stuff.
The Flaming Lips had the bass panned all over the place on the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album, and it's a masterpiece, and it sounded fine. Creativity and Originality never comes by following the masses and the rules. Should I [ But do whatever sounds good to you, if you don't need to worry about the technical limitations.
Ken Lewis. I will sometimes use a stereoizer like a Roland Dim D, and sometimes the bassline the client gave me was a stereo patch from a keyboard, but usually thats still a centered bass with effect. As many have already pointed out, bass is such an integral part of urban music, that to pan it would make the mix noticably lopsided. However, if you wanna try to start a new trend, go for it! Who the hell would have ever thought a beat with kick, snare, vocal, and a keyboard every once in a while would go straight to 1?
I did a mix a couple weeks ago of an indie rock band i'm producing where on one song, i took the drums, cello, and Lead Vocal and panned them all hard right. Then i took the Bass, guitars, shaker, and backing vocals and panned them all hard left.
Any effect used reverb or delay , was mono panned hard to one side. I mixed carefully so when summing to mono it blended right as well. The band was really thrown at first but fell in love with it.
This of course isnt new. All those 60's records did the same thing. But this song also wasnt a radio song. So, what do some of you guys do to stereo-ize basses in a mix when needed? Maybe thats a much better question? Your fancy trickery on a transitional riser might lose all impact in a club.
Check in mono, as stated above. You can use fancy headphone modeling software for that, or download free impulse responses of clubs from sources such as this. Load up the impulse response in your favorite convolution reverb, and just listen from time to time to make sure the mix sounds as good as a reference, also pumped through the club IR.
Translation checks are always a good idea—especially so when it comes to panning decisions. Your monitors might be excellent, but headphones sound different, as they eliminate crosstalk the phenomenon of information from the right speaker reaching the left ear and vice versa.
Panning is a way of achieving balance, just like frequency manipulation and dynamic control. Take the example of an acoustic guitar and a hi-hat. Both are usually marking straight subdivisions in a mix 8th notes or 16th notes. Both have a lot of high-end information, and both can be jangly or harsh. The hi-hat, guitar, and shaker all panned to roughly the same spot, like so:.
It sounds pretty harsh to me. Sometimes older recordings, or modern recordings mixed to evoke a nostalgic vibe, employ drastically weird panning schemes—such as placing all the drums in one speaker, and the rest of the band in another. This can be used for effect.
Rilo Kiley and Elliott Smith both utilized this technique in their later work to achieve specific textures. They come from panning just a couple of interesting elements while maintaining a strong and balanced center.
Try just making just one element of your mix wide and spacious, like doubled-guitars, a stereo piano track, or drum overheads, and make everything else work around the center with careful level setting and judicious EQ. I hope these basic panning tips are helpful in your mixing endeavors.
Once you master them, you can move on to more advanced techniques, such as the ones listed in this article. Looking for more music production tips? What makes a brilliantly mixed and mastered song? Industry experts in mixing and mastering curate a list of great-sounding records through the decades. Mixing can be easy if you know how to set yourself up for success before even making your first move.
Do you pan your bass? Thread starter pasnu Start date Jun 7, Do you guys pan your bass? If you do to witch side and by how much? I do not like panning bass at all with the exception of doing it for effect, then switching back to center. Did an attempt to paint a quartet's live acoustic bass stagescape once. Put most of the lows center but panned and set the upper cues a little right. Yes it worked. Haven't used it very often though. Click to expand Armistice Son of Yoda. I'll stick it a notch or two either side, sometimes Last edited: Jun 8, Terra Scholarly Gentleman.
I think it depends on what type of music you are doing. I do a lot of Trip Hop stuff, where it needs to sound powerful. If I were to pan my bass to one speaker, it would weaken my mix. Panning Panning is the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field - it is critical to the make up of the stereo image.
Mixing Overview. Audio Spectrum. Bass heavy instruments, such as the kick, should be kept near the centre as to not disrupt the balance of the track. One tom to the left and the other to the right helps balance up the mix. Toms are best used on fills only. Beware if Toms are set too wide they can be very distracting and over-powering in the mix.
Hi Hats can be panned flexibly as they emit high frequencies and do not disrupt the balance too much.
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