How do you use that pan control on a mixer?

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Not enough details. Is this a recording situation or a live situation? What type of sound system are we talking about? How many mic's, how many people, what type of genre, what type of room or venue are we talking about?

Depending on the circumstances.... well, it really depends. Two guitarists, bassist, drums, vox.... if its a big enough mixer/PA system.... dunno.

Gah, there's too many variables, too many unknowns.

It isn't necessarily *wrong* to pan everyone center, but it isn't necessarily *right* either. Overheads tend to get panned hard right and hard left, but that's only if you're using overhead mics, which you usually won't in a live mix. Kicks, bass, and vox are almost always run center, regardless. Guitars it depends.

Remember that in a live rig, anything other than flat may end up being much weaker and might be more likely to be lost in the mix.


I dunno.... in a general sense, if you aren't paying him, blow it off - its not your rig, and you don't really have the right to tell him how to run *his* rig.


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