[Jesse Lewis]

Awesome! This is great advice. I guess I got scared to hard pan pan elements in case the speakers got really far apart or something – but I will be more liberal with my panning choices. A friend of mine was just telling me the other day about the old days of mixing with only the 3 choices (C or L or R). He said he’s been mixing like that recently and its really cleared up his mixes a lot.

Speaking of which – (and I’m sure this is a big subject!) but if you were to hard pan like you are describing – how does it translate when people listen through their phone speaker? Does the iphone just sum everything to mono? Is that something to take into acount when making panning descisions?

I’m looking forward to hearing what you think about my current master of windmills, which is more dynamic than the other version, especially focusing on working from the big section. Power Tips baby!

JLew

[Jesse Lewis]

Hi Jon!

Thanks so much for listening so carefully and for your kind words! Your input is very much appreciated and helpful. I agree with all of those comments and I will go back in and address them.

I actually panned quite a few things in the mix but I think the furthest I went R or L was 25 or so. I heard from somebody that you should never go past 30? (in other words no hard panning) but maybe I was misguided there haha.

I wonder if anybody else in the group has thoughts or insights on panning rules? Are there such rules? Especially given that many folks listen thru their phones?

Curious what folks think!

Best,

Jesse