Scott Jackson Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I've noticed that some software instruments will come primarily out of the left channel or the right channel even when Pan is set to center. Some are so biased that it's hard to pan enough in the right direction to balance it. I notice it particularly on software drum kits and cymbals. Is this normal or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 It's most probably normal. For example, a drum software instrument could pan the different drum in the kit at their respective positions (hi-hat toward the left, low tom toward the right etc...). You should tell us which software instrument, which patch and which sound so hopefully someone here with the same software as you can check it out and tell you if they get the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thanks David, it's 04 Drums and Percussion/01 Acoustic drum kits/Warehouse Kit. Closed hi hat and crash cymbals both come mostly from the right speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45rpm Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I've seen something like this with the EVB3. Try 60's Blues. Hold down B2 and stare at the meters. L is more than 10 db louder than R. The gap is easier to see and measure if you slide the fader all the way up. It's also easier to evaluate what's happening in the mixer window, because the meter there is calibrated. Then try F6. The gap is just as big, except in the opposite direction. Some other B3 presets do the same thing. I don't find this terribly bothersome, just a quirky thing. I haven't bothered trying to twiddle knobs to see if I could fix it. As someone who used to own an actual Leslie cabinet (although the organ was a Farfisa, not a Hammond), I think EVB3 sounds awesome (better than the various competitors I've tried). So therefore little flaws are highly forgivable. Anyway, I could see how it makes sense for parts of a drum kit to be panned pretty hard (by default), but I don't see a rationale for organ notes doing this. Then again, maybe there is something cool about low octaves and high octaves being placed differently in the stereo plane. Maybe it's supposed to create an impression of an instrument that's physically wide (although it would make more sense to do that with a pipe organ setting). And after all, there are lots of other settings if you don't like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Maybe it's supposed to create an impression of an instrument that's physically wide I think that's what it is, just like when you mic a real acoustic piano in stereo: one mic is usually closer to the low notes, the other mic to the high notes, therefore lower notes come from one side of the stereo field and higher notes from the other side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thanks David, it's 04 Drums and Percussion/01 Acoustic drum kits/Warehouse Kit. Closed hi hat and crash cymbals both come mostly from the right speaker. I just tried it and got the same results. Yes, it's normal, this kit was sampled from the audience perspective, so hi-hat is to the right, high toms are to the right, low toms to the left. Totally normal for a stereo sampler instrument. If everything was centered you would have a mono instrument, which is usually not desirable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Cool. Good to know. Thanks David and 45rpm. I appreciate the wisdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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