S5 Masters panning issue
 

I have a few stereo tracks assigned to a few masters and have assigned the masters to the strips. When the pan knob is centered on the masters strips the audio is in both speakers and the control meter on the 401 shows this. When I pan the master pan knob to hard left the audio is in both speakers and the meter shows this but when I pan the master hard right the audio is on the right speaker only and the 401 meter shows this. I cannot pan the masters track audio left even though the pan knob on the 408 is panned hard left.

The stereo tracks are panned hard left and hard right. The Pan to button is lit on GRP and MIX on the 408.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Re: S5 Masters panning issue
 

Are they Masters as in 'M1...M2.." or are they Group Masters?

When you add channels to a group there is always an off-set. The Group master's Pan is center but the members stay where they were when you made the group. Hence when you have two members that are panned hard left and right - when you pan the group master hard right the Left member moves to CNTR and the opposite when you pan hard left...

Re: S5 Masters panning issue
 

These are multi masters channels set to wide. I set each source pair channel pan to center then pan the master stereo channel but when panning left or right the audio will pan full right but no panning to the left.

Re: S5 Masters panning issue
 

I cannot reproduce what you are seeing...

Can you clarify " channels set to wide "

Does this mean in the Masters Tab in Emix you selected a LR? Or are you working in a 5.1 or greater format?

When you add channels to a master - the masters defaulted pan is center across the front and center across the rear (X/Y). The dot is in the middle of the pan graph.

the source channels are defaulted so that they are panned hard right/left but 50% back - so they show up on the same x-plane as the master pan graph.

When you pan the master left, the right channel goes center. And vice versa when you pan right.

If you started out with the source channels nulled at center across the front (thus creating an offset between the X/Y of the master) they will just follow the pan of the master. IE if you pan left, they both move hard left

Re: S5 Masters panning issue
 

I figured this issue out.

I had to start from scratch by wiping out the Multi Format masters.

Logically I use MFM as dual mono source tracks and true stereo source tracks. These MFM tracks are for mixing in stereo and 6.1.

1. Spill the source tracks across the stripes.
2. Setup all dual mono source tracks and pan them dead center.
3. Setup true stereo tracks and pan them hard left and right.
4. Create a snapshot as a backup and store or modify the layers
5. Build the multi format masters in eMix

Only pan the MFM channels and not source tracks

6. Set the width of each dual mono MFM to zero %
7. Set the width of the true stereo MFM to 100%
8. Panning dual mono MFM tracks to full left and right
9. Panning true stereo MFM tracks to 30% left and right

I saved this as a MFM title which saves the multi format masters configuration. After extensive testing I can use this MFM for tracking and mixing in stereo and 6.1.

Re: S5 Masters panning issue
 

Yes, usually you do all the panning from the MFM panner, because diving into the individual channel panners can reap havoc. We had some freelance mixers who were used to having to do this on DFC desks, and our assistants would have to point out that all the panning info was handled by the MFM panner, and that the individual tracks were best left alone.
There was some weird panning going on, for sure.

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