advice on panning

[xfive]

It's usually not a good idea to pan things hard unless you have something to offset it on the other side. ;)

thanks xfive ;)
how do you mean? pad hard left synth hard right for instance?

whats the furthest most of you would pan somthin?

Well I mean lets say you have a synth stab thats panned 20-25% to the right... you could have a different synth that covers roughly the same frequencies panned 20-25% to the left...

It's not really a rule or anything but if you have something panned too obviously one way or another.. if nothing plays off of it or with it, the track will seem misbalanced.. thats what you were saying about it sounding "wrong" ;)

I personally pan almost everything around in one way or another (except bass and kick of course which are kept in mono)... it's a must to keep everything audible and non-cluttered.. some of the more driving elements I may keep centered..