If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this assignment, it’s that balancing and panning are not independent of each other.  I made two different bounces, the second of which is a bit more ambitious in it’s panning.  In both, I tried to balance the frequency levels in both ears, like if I had the first [...]

1 The lead vocal, bass guitar, kick drum, and rhythm guitar are in the center while the other instruments are panned to extreme left or right. To balance the dynamic of the song similar or equivalent instruments where placed opposite to each other in order to occupy the sonic space and create the illusion of [...]

PAN 1

I set up the drums so that it would sound just like it would if you were playing the kit yourself. I panned the snare slight right and the overhead 2 to the right.  Overhead 1 I moved slightly to the left. The Hi-hat to the left and moved the floor tom [...]

Bounce 1: Two main things here: set panning of the lead/backup vocals and “floating” the lead guitar in the intro. Separating the vocals worked exactly as intended–they are clearly distinguishable as distinct voices contributing to the song. However, it was a little offsetting hearing two distinct voices that were definitely the same person. I’m not [...]

These mixes are from my acoustic recording

Panorama Music 317.1

The first mix I panned the four voices in two groups going hard left and right. The bass guitar and lead vocals are panned left and the piano and backup voices are panned right. This seems to separate the voices in two groups [...]

the first mix, i was going for very subtle pan changes. I kept the main vocals, the bass and the piano centralized, and panned the other parts around those three components.

panning mix 1

The next mix, i moved the vocals heavily to one side, and the backing vocals to the other side. The [...]

Pan 1 – Extremes

In this first mix, the instruments are all panned to an extreme end while the vocals remain in the center.  This allows the vocals to really be accentuated and clear without the interference of various instrumental aspects.  This mix is also unique because the guitar voices are panned far right [...]

Take One

-       I panned the guitar, piano and bass slightly to the left and left lead on the right.

-       kept drums un-panned

-       In the left ear I panned the other track of piano and the voices slightly so that during the listening the voices are not lost in the clutter.

(ALL OF MY BOUNCED MIXES EXCEED FILE UPLOAD SIZE EXCEPT FOR MIX3. I WILL TRY TO EMAIL YOU MIX 1 & 2!! I even tried compressing the files into .zip and they were still too large for some reason.)

Pan3

In my first mix, I panned everything that was split into 2 tracks [...]

pan1

In this mix I panned everything but the drums.  I tried to only slightly pan everything and even distribute what I panned left and right.  I put the rhythm and bass guitars to the left and the vocals, lead, and piano to the right.  My only harder panning was the intro guitar in [...]