Extreme panning in club music?

[TechMouse]

not only that, but to make efective placement of cabinets to get workable stereo in your average club, it`s just too difficult.

The placement of the soundsystem is normally low on the list of priorities in all but the greatest of nightclubs.
Shame really.

But then, I¬m a Rig junkie anyway.

The main room at BluePrint is roughly rectangular and we bring our own stack.

[dirty_bass]

The main room at BluePrint is roughly rectangular and we bring our own stack.

But why run stereo?
If it`s a permanent set up, I understand it, like brixton academy, as there is time to sort proper placement out, and at least get a reasonable wide angle coverage for the stereo effect (even though the sound at the brixton academy is generally ass)
We used to run 80K superstacks at at raindance, all one array too, still didn`t do stereo though, it leads to so many problems with accoustics etc.

[TechMouse]

I could be wrong, we might be feeding the same signal to both stacks.

It sounds great, anyway.

[dirty_bass]

I could be wrong, we might be feeding the same signal to both stacks.

It sounds great, anyway.

I was gonna say, you might as well just run mono, and concentrate on getting the crossovers set up just right, and the eq perfect, than dealing with stereo.
You`ll get more efficiency out of the amps too.

[stjohn]

i find the best way is to just have the 'trans' effect on the pioneer 600 (dave clarke style) on constantly so the beat just jumps from left to right. cant get more stereo than that

[TechMouse]

I was gonna say, you might as well just run mono, and concentrate on getting the crossovers set up just right, and the eq perfect, than dealing with stereo.
You`ll get more efficiency out of the amps too.

I really ought to spend more time learning how it all works to be honest. Dom really knows his stuff, and I should really take advantage of the opportunity to learn.

I was quite sure it's in stereo though, because I think the balance control on the mixer works.

[dirty_bass]

I really ought to spend more time learning how it all works to be honest. Dom really knows his stuff, and I should really take advantage of the opportunity to learn.

I was quite sure it's in stereo though, because I think the balance control on the mixer works.

Probably the balance works on the mixer at the meters, but I bet when it hits the amps it goes mono.

I wouldn`t advise getting into rigs too much mate.
I accidentally got into it years ago, next thing you know I was putting on massive raves, and doing commercial installs.
Very very distracting, and possibly the ultimate audio gear porn.
Plus it means not only do I analyse the music I hear when at a club("man, they really killed the tops when mastering this tune"etc, in my head, but I`m also analysing the sound syste, ("useless twats have got the crossovers all wrong, and like bloody amateurs, it`s all bass and top and no mid")
Nightmare.

[rounser]

So a question on this:

Suppose you've got a track all mixed down and it may as well be in mono because nothing's panned. If I then go and start panning instruments, without adjusting anything else, will it sound exactly the same through a mono system as if I hadn't panned anything?

I assume the answer depends on the panning law involved with your mixer....in which case, what panning law (-3db? -6db?) sums from stereo to mono so that it'd be identical in the above scenario?