Mixing Headphones (Help ?)

alexis · July 12, 2013, 2:13am

monsterjazzlicks:

Thanks Alexis,

Thats very helpful mate.

For the rest of it, sounds like you are on the right path, a little “listening exercise” every day! Others can give you far better advice than I, but maybe one exercise to try (if your version of Cubase supports it) is to listen to a commercial track with the pan controls full wide, then shrink the panning field so the blue area becomes smaller and smaller, until ultimately it becomes mono. At each stage of narrowing of the stereo field, it should sound different.

Do you mean i import a regular mp3 recording from a cd, Pan the left and right hard, and then gradually bring the left and right to center ?? If i import a cd then will it not just be placed in one single channel ?? To perform what you are suggesting would i not need the song to be in two channels (one for the left audio and the other for the right) ??

Thanks,

Paul

Hi MJL - You’re very welcome!

As far as importing a CD, most of them nowadays are stereo, which means they have a left and right channel that are not identical. You will be able to visually confirm that when you compare the shape of the waveforms after you import the CD. But yes, the other part is what I meant - open up a panner with a separate left and right control, then stepwise bring them each to center, listening and comparing after each change.

Like I said, there are going to be much better ways to listen to panning which other guys here can help you with, but that’s just a way to get started.

Have fun!