4 Ways To Achieve a Professional Mix With Panning⁠



4 Ways To Achieve a Professional Mix With Panning⁠

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The center of your stereo image needs to be your core. The best way to give your mix a solid core is to keep lower frequency sounds in the center. That means kicks, basses and anything else below the 120hz range.⁠
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Automated panning will let certain sounds move across the stereo spectrum through out your track. This is great for music layering and getting sound with more movement because the implied space that panning automation creates highlights all the width you’ve created in your mix.⁠
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Hard panning is a good place to start when you want a wide mix. Try some hard-pans to give your mix instant space and room to breathe. But once you understand where everything is sitting, you can experiment with the other space.⁠
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Check your pans on headphones. Monitors will give you an idea of how your pans are sitting. But any sound in an open room will leak into both ears. Get a sense of where each part is and try to see your mix as an entire sonic image.⁠
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