You’ve Been Doing It Wrong…HOW TO PAN (the correct way)

🚨 You've (probably) been panning WRONG and it's hurting your mix! Let me explain:

The basic Ableton, FL Studio, and Logic Pro pan knobs are not doing what you think they're doing. For example, when you "pan" a stereo sound left...the sound is NOT actually moving to the left.

Your DAW doesn't do the best job explaining this concept (and who wants to read the instruction manual, right!?)

That's why we're here to help! In this video, Zack is going to show you how the default "Pan/Balance" parameter could be hurting your mixes, and provide you with the solution for each DAW (Ableton, FL Studio, Logic Pro).

If this panning concept was new to you, drop a comment and let us know!

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[ulisesortegaaragon]

Vin Diesel without steroids and actually being a cool guy

[volvemusic]

Just tested it out and indeed this tip is an absolute GAME CHANGER for panning piano. BLESS YOU

[CosmicWavess]

Thank the spirits someone who takes their time explaining, who actually shows the right method on both daws instead of just the one you're on

[remnantcrusade]

I had never thought about the pan knob like that before, thanks for shedding light on this! This will undoubtedly be useful in future productions.

[strwlkr]

I've been making music for longer than I'd like to admit in this comment and never knew this! Thank you! Subscribed

[vinivmmusic]

WTF? ????This tip changes my whole Mix

[Clap_Codex]

I think I‘ve seen a tutorial on this before but definitely forgot about it and continued panning the „wrong“ way 😃

[fnwldef]

Never really knew that works this way. Thank you for the explanation!

[naveedstegamat]

Wow def did not know channel pan just decreases the l/r volume… crazy. Great vid zack

[vancenichols]

Wow! I never knew this before viewing this video! Thanks for this awesome content!

[gaagoimusic]

OMG I've been working in Ableton for 5 years and never right clicked the pan knob 🤯🤯🤯 And I've never seen anyone mention this before. Thanks you!

[jamesblaq]

Bro!! This is GOLD!! Your video explains why I struggled with my mixing. Thank you!!

[MrFizzyhouse]

Al put my hands up I didn’t look at it like this before 🤦‍♂️😅😅😂 amazing work thanks 🙏

[StargateMax]

3:00 really cool difference, I didn't know about this! In Cubase (which I use) it's "Stereo combined panner" and it actually had this effect, it didn't reduce the volume.

[Reg-Edit]

This method is much underused
Especially for people that record their hardware, synthesisers in stereo and find it hard to fit in the mix
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[reclaimer]

Didn't know that dom toretto is giving the craziest mixing and mastering lessons on youtube. Liked and subscribed

[silentalliance]

Thanks so much for all of your tutorials are incredible!! I think this may be particularly inherit issue in Ableton because in ProTools your mixer gives you both left and right panning channels so you’re sort of forced to go full left or full right if you want to pan properly …. But yeah I’ve used Ableton a few times and I had no idea this was the case thanks for the tip and saving me a headache 😊😊

[ojneztu]

You just changed the game for my fam!!

[RayBrown]

Who knew! I sure didn't. This is a pretty big thing to have gotten wrong. I'm a Logic user. Thx for shedding the light!