You need to pan your elements. Some to the left and some to the right.

When it comes to percussion - remember to use layers of sounds and then pan those different. By doing this you get a little better stereo seperation.

One more thing: You need to use layers of the same sound. For example, if you want a synthpattern, use two synths with the same patch (maybe detune them to each other). Then you pan one to the left and the other to the right. Then maybe you use a little ping-pong delay on them.

I hope this helped.

Last edited by Danne__85 on Jan-19-2005 at 19:08

club mixes are mastered differently too

Most club systems are a pseudo mono- extremem panning may lose half the track and cause major phasing problems.

I separately pan each percussion part. Some in the middle, some to the right, some to the left, some perhaps bouncing between all of these. Stereo separation as an effect I use mostly on pads/strings, when I feel that they intrude too much on e.g. the mid bassline or other mid freq. instruments if they are "in the middle". Using stereo separation on the main lead might be something you would not like to do too heavily, at least do I personally like to have my main lead quite a lot centered (panned delay is another thing). Stereo separation on the bassline is not recommended (IMHO).

To create a full sound, there are three different things to think of :

left/right - panning
front/back - reverb
up/down - eq / sound source frequency content

fill up all of this area and you'll have a really full track!

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