Patreon Production Tips 3 - Panning
Added 2024-09-24 16:35:44 +0000 UTCHello everyone! Let's dive into the week with some more production tips. This time going over some of my favourite panning tricks.
Panning on FX - Here anything goes like random panning, side to side panning, all kinds of panning movement can work great on FX.
Panning on Drums - Certain elements like breaks often want to be stable and fairly down the middle even though this isn't a hard and fast rule. Generally elements with a lot of low end want to be pretty centeral. Panning on percs like hi-hats can be a lot more experimental.
Panning on Instruments - Often wants to be more stable in a specific place left, right or center.
Opposite Panning - Pan two instruments or drum elements that are playing at the same time to different sides of the stereo field.
Panning Stepper - Step the pan from side to side. This works great for hi-hats & percussion elements.
Side to Side Panning (Sampler Version) - The best thing here is often to render down any effects like delays or reverbs into a single audio file and then to load that into the sampler and modulate pan with a sine LFO.
Side to Side panning (PanMan Soundtoys) - This allows you to be more flexible with the panning as you can load this plugin anywhere in your chain i.e after the reverbs and delays.
Ping Pong Delay - Probably my favourite way to give some stereo width to an element. 1/8D works amazingly for DnB/jungle drums. Try automate this on and off for fills.
Panning Reverbs and Delays Separately - Pan instrument on one side, Delay or Reverb on the other to add stereo width.
Comments
Cheers James, Yea that album by Luke Vibert has some intresting panning for sure. He loves that wide break sound with the top end of the breaks panned hard L/R. I think he is still largely keeping the kick & bass down the middle which shows how important that is. For sure, with the higher pitched stuff extreme panning can make them stick out a lot. Sometimes you want this but it can become quite jarring in the mix to hear a hi-hat constantly beating on one side. You definitly need to think about balancing the elements across the stereo image.
George CS
2024-09-27 07:52:53 +0000 UTCCheers Ma'or - Yea I love ping-pong delays on breaks. So easy to set up up also. If your in Renoise you can just save a Doofer with an LFO and Delay all packaged inside like that ready to go :)
George CS
2024-09-27 07:41:39 +0000 UTCAll solid suggestions as I like to play around in the stereo field. I would recommend to anyone interested in panning use check out the Plug ( Luke Vibert) album " Drum n Bass for Papa". Panning of the various sounds is quite extensive throughout the record. And it came immediately to mind when reading about keeping the break in the middle as that rule is broken a few times. That said, I prefer the kick and the snare, at least down the centre. I have found that less aggressive panning of the higher pitched percussion sounds, or accents, can fit better in the space of the mix. Thanks for the tips as a few are new approaches that I shall try in the future.
beatcomber
2024-09-25 01:18:20 +0000 UTCThat was great! I especially loved the last trick. Noted that. Thank you man:)
Ma'or Kadosh
2024-09-24 18:47:51 +0000 UTC
