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Pannning has a law?

  • Writer: Koncreat
    Koncreat
  • Oct 29, 2018
  • 1 min read

Pan law is not a very common discussion. Why? I don't have a clue, but KoncreatMixing.com will give you an idea of it today.


When you mix, do you pan before you level your sounds? Or do you level your sounds, then pan?

These are real questions because pan law exists. Pan law without being too scientific is the increase of volume when moving a signal left or right.


You've may unconsciously experienced this while mixing. You'll have a great center mix on a sound, then you've decided to pan it. Now, you're turning it down again because it seems too loud. Pan law can vary in db depending on which daw you use. In Pro Tools it starts from -2.5 and goes to -6.0db. Try putting your pan law on -3.0 in your daw's settings.


This is good because of humans perception to volume. (That will be covered on a later date). So try panning your sounds first, then mix it.

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