Hey, this is my first post so i apologize if i sound like a noob. I'm still pretty new to recording and have cheap equipment but am surprised at how i can get it to sound... SO FAR. I have limited access to a computer so i can only check replies every few days if that. Anyways, onto the quesitons.

I've completed work on a batch of home recorded songs and I've mixed them on and off as I've recorded as opposed to doing it all at once from scratch.

I want to get that atmospheric sound to it where it feels like the sound is all around you, so I'm not sure how much I should be panning tracks left and right or how drastically to do it.

Hey guys, how u doing?

I`m new to Logic, used Samplitude before. Back in that days, when I wanted to pan something, I just turned the wheel left or right, and when it was turned to left, there would be signal coming only from left speaker, no right signal at all visa versa.

I was wondering, (I'm using Sonar x1) if the "pan" knob in each channel is actually a balance knob that just manipulates the L/R volumes to create the illusion of panning?
If that is so..i want to use other Vst plugins to actually move the audio signal itself. what do you guys use?

i know it can be done, but i cant find how to pan individual midi notes. I'm trying to pan some rythm sounds harder right or left than defautled(within the same keyboard layout). can somebody help? I'm using pt8. (everytime i search pan or panning it comes up with everything except what i need!). thanks!

i know still to this day, professional engineers still question panning. my problem is...when I'm mixing a track, i tend to pan every instrument to the slightest touch...i kind of imagine a concert or a club and imagine all the instrument playing in the back of the artist. that would be my reason why i usually dont pan instruments fully to the left or fully right.

I seem to be experiencing an issue with my panning.

I seem to be experiencing an issue with my panning.

...made me wonder what others are doing with their pan settings. I just finished reading the section on pan laws in Roey Izhaki's book Mixing Audio. He indicates the main pan laws are -0 -3 -4.5 and -6dB, and explains that for most stereo mixing, -3dB is probably what we are looking for, but I am always curious about rogue values and settings, and the people who might use them.

Perhaps wrongly titled. Perhaps I mean 'creating room so the tricks don't have to be used'.

What I am talking about is queries like the recent query on recording vocals and getting that warm, fat sound.

The answer given was to triple the vocal, one left, one right, one centre.