a question for slate, and group discussion

[joeymusicguy]

hey yall

just wanted to bring the topic of "pan law" up...

in nuendo, there's several different pan law's. the main ones are 0, equal power, and -3

i've been using 0 for a really long time and just recently switched to equal power. a lot of people will probably try to tell you it really doesnt matter, because those people believe everything is relative. they are right, levels are relative, BUT! when you're panning stuff around, with 0 pan law, the center track is marginally louder than panning it 100% left (sounds like 3 db louder, to me)

ALSO with equal power pan law, a sound amplitude of 0 shows up as -3 db on the channel output (this is automatically adjusted to make the pan law "work")

so im curious, what do some of you use, and more importantly mr. slate (when mixing in the box) what pan law do you prefer?

 

[Tachy]

I prefer -3....

 

[J the TyranT]

Pan law is weak.

Pan's Labyrinth is where its at....





I bring nothing to this conversation.

 

[alan1990]

using equal power here... Do you ever sleep joey?

 

[Machinated]

I'm using -3 in Logic, didn't enjoy the -3 compensated (signals got too hot too quickly), and haven't really tried 0.

 

[joeymusicguy]

using equal power here... Do you ever sleep joey?

not really

most of the time its 4 hours, so i can have time to my self.
i dont take vacations, and i work 7 days a week all year.
even holidays.

 

[LSD-Studio]

not really

most of the time its 4 hours, so i can have time to my self.
i dont take vacations, and i work 7 days a week all year.
even holidays.

sounds like you're a record producer!

 

[Ermz]

Apparently I use equal power. I never gave it much thought to be overly honest with you. Equal power always seemed the most natural, and I never felt a need to change it.

 

[LSD-Studio]

it doesn't matter at all what you're using...you'll set the faderlevels accordingly...(unless you're not mixing with your ears)

 

[abyssofdreams]

default in cubase here

which is -3

 

[broken81]

not really

most of the time its 4 hours, so i can have time to my self.
i dont take vacations, and i work 7 days a week all year.
even holidays.

Your not human thats why and those 4 hours you are recharging not sleeping!


I'm guessing this is a cubase/nuendo thing right?

 

[-Gavin-]

I use 0 in Sonar...

 

[Seizure.]

Equal here! for some reason my drums sounded much better that way...

 

[colonel kurtz]

I'm guessing this is a cubase/nuendo thing right?

nah, it should be an option in pretty much all DAW's...

 

[C_F_H_13]

Whatever protools uses that's what I'm doing.