wow Loopdon what an honour I have learnt so much from you quietly browsing these forums, to think I have something to pass on to you :lol:


the most noticable thing I did with the panning was I had two sounds layered together on the 3 7 11 15. I'm sure you know the deal. one was a very slappy, sticky sound, the other was a more open highhat sound. all i did was shift one to the left just slightly about -18 on my reason mixer and one the opposite side. I would neve3r have purposly done such a thing but the effect was quite surprising. It really gave my track that shuffly kind of groove guy's like Samuel l and deetron seem to have in their tracks.


then I experimented a little and applied the call and answer technique to panning. eg. I had this shuffly pattern which was pushed back behind the main drums a bit and I panned it left for the 1, 2 and right for the 3 4. Again the main drums were still front and centre - I know enough about panning not to touch the snare and kick etc - but the other sounds started to play off againts each other and next thing I knew I had movement to my track. quite a liberating experience for me.


the other thing I noticed was that my track - which was pretty much at that point where I didn't know what more I could do to it. And was about to start just layer random drums over the top until it sounded muddey and ****ed. - opened up and I suddenly had all this extra room for things. I started trying to fill the whole range of pan with sound so I had a whole heap of sound in the centre, then some panned only slighty, then some a bit more and some fully panned.

I'm still experiementing but it's been a great breakthrough for me.