Hard Panning issue

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Henk
It sounds to me like there is a slight colouration between the o/ps. Check
and compare the frequency response, phasing shift between 800Hz, 40Hz, and
12kHz, sig/noise, thd, x-talk at various freqs, of each main chl. And do
involve just the 2 track/input chnls where you routed/altered the pan
direction from! You must use a mono test source split/paralleled to the i/ps
of these particular channels.

Your Pan controls are virtually routeing buttons when at full extent, if
each is favouring a particular main chnl, so it can't be that.
Important:
What were on the solo tracks? Were the two sounds/instruments recorded
contemporalily or was one done later?
If together, did you use a crossed pair or separated close-micing? Is the
reverb compromised by this swapping?
Or probably the sensitivity of each ear is attuned differently. Nobody's
hearing is perfect.

"H. Schaap" <h.schaap01@chello.nl> wrote in message
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> When mixing and soloing two tracks which were hard panned L and R,
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> we changed the the panning completely so that hard L -> hard-R and
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> hard R-> hard L. Thus the panning from 'east and west' turned to
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> 'close' to each other ;-)
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> We thought it sounded somewhat different. So yesterday I did this with
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> a mono CD in a loop, closed headphones(no room),chandged hard L-R
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> in hard R-L and its sounds different in a way.
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> After the panning change it's sounded less stereo, less bright and a bit
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> more details in transients, attack. I've turned the headphone, used
> different mixers,
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> different headphones etc. Result: all the same behaviour.
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> Asking this in a Dutch Pro Audio group this 'thing' is confirmed. So
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> it is not my ears or brains ;-) I would expect it should sounds the same
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> when I turned the headphone after the panningswitch.
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> Is this a known 'thing' or is there a explanation for this, crosstalk or
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> in the summing or .....?
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> Henk Schaap
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"Jim Gregory" <jim.greg@ntlworld.com> schreef in bericht
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Hi Jim,

Good points, thanks. I will check this the next days.
In theory if I pan the opposite and swap my headphone
then the same signal should be in the same ear. I've
tried Beyer DT-250, Sennheiser, AKG 240DF , AT headphones
and all give the same results.

I am curious if other RAPpers hear this too. If not then it is
my mixer or CD-player, I think.
My first thought was that it is a phase-issue.

Anyway it is a thing to keep in mind while mixing or maybe first to test
if your mixer have the same behaviour.

Henk

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"H. Schaap" <h.schaap01@chello.nl> schreef in bericht
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Sorry for the lay-out. If stereo is mentioned it's offcourse about stereo
recordings

Henk