I pulled a 44.1/16 bit file from a recorded CD into Cubase as a reference mix. I set the Project Settings inside Cubase to 44.1k,16bit, -3dB pan law. I set my RME AES32 Hammerfall sound card to a pan law of -3dB as well.
When I play the same file on Windows Media player, through the same outputs on the RME sound card, the stereo image is much wider, and as a result the panned guitars are much clearer sounding and the mix sounds less muddy.
Does anybody know what’s going on here? I cannot figure it out. Same file. Same Pan Law.
The pan law does not have anything to do with pan width , and not at all with stereo tracks.
If the perceived pannig witdh is different, it´s either in your head, or you have some processing going on somewhere (either Cubase or WMP)
Any possibility Cubase panning (either the imported track, or the master bus) isn’t hard R/L, or that it got imported onto a mono track instead of a stereo track?
