Panning

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Jimbogjones

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Hi

im new here and relatively new to mixing. My question is that I have a piece of music with two tracks. 1 is a piano that plays chords and the other is a trumpet that plays a melody over the top. How should these tracks be panned for a good stereo effect? Should they both come out front and centre after EQ or what? I have read that you can put the piano out the centre and duplicate the trumpet putting one out the left and the other out the right after applying slightly different effects to them (reverb) does anyone have any opinions on how best to pan a piece with two tracks

thanks in advance for any advice you can give

james
 
The Piano should be more or less stereo by itself, isn't it?
You could duplicate the trumpet track, pan the tracks l/r and add a delay of ~25ms to one of 'em (so-called Haas stereo effect), this is the simplest way of creating fake stereo. Maybe you've a delay plugin which allows to modulate the delay time, if this is the case use it.
 
Mad is right. For a piano to sound intimate it is usually spread left to right because if you are up close to a piano the bass keys are on the left, treble on the right. They're usually recorded like that. Usually EQed to be warm. Maybe room reverb. Maybe only a hint of hall reverb. Reverb depends on the recording. Might already have it. Trumpets, on the other hand, are often distant. There's no such thing as intimate trumpet. So it can be fairly mono with (stereo) reverb.

Pianos are always recorded like that though. Often for movies they're recorded at a distance, maybe one piano on the left one on the right. That would give you a totally different sound and it wouldn't work as a close sound.
 
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If recorded well both of them will be stereo (you're daw will be able to tell you) and they will have a realistic stereo seperation allready because the are recorded. so they are realistic and if that is what you're after then here you go

Else if you feel like you might want to play your track in a dance club or on a dance festival you might want to bring the stereo down a bit to mono. Herefor you don't need to pan anything. there are a lot of free plugins that can be used to set the width of a sound. this is what you want to use.

Panning is used to have a sound play on one side of the stereo. it has little to do with a sounds stereo seperation in the way you mean!
 
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