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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 9:32:18 GMT -6
The reason for LCR panning, again, is musical balance translation. I've been told the original reason, after it became a choice, was to bypass additional stages and transformers in the console... Early in my career I had eventually tried my hand a designing/building my own mixer for my location work. Researching schematics of known consoles I was shocked at how invasive Planning circuits were. Every design I studied presented (in my opinion) major compromises in fidelity and resolution. What to do??? I blew it off!! No pan pots! LCR switching only. For those times when I needed to place a signal midway between the extremes I simply relied on stereo mic technique. Turned out this provided more natural and compelling sound stages than synthetic panning ever did for me. Just last year I engineered a direct-to-disc quad record. Again no pan pots, yet the spacious sound field occupied and enveloped all the cube feet of the room. At the same time providing solid and stable phantom centers. Fidelity and resolution are more important than pan pots when it comes to image depth and stability. Obviously there is a time and place for everything. But by avoiding the extra circuits/processing one may, with judicious technique, outperform pan pots. These are the 2 best posts I've read in a long time. The bit about using stereo mic'ing.... Thanks.
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