Routing audio thru stereo aux

[4Christ]

What I'm trying to do is mix three voices. These voices often switch leads and I want to make sure the lead is always center and the harmonies stay on the R/L. If the person singing lead switches to a part I'll take that piece and move it to a panned track. Each of these is then sent to a stereo aux representing that vocal. Those 3 stereo auxes are sent to a stereo aux which controls all the voices together. All the music is routed to a stereo fader as well. This way I can mix voice to music side by side. Then I send those two to another stereo aux that allows the mixed audio to be sent to a dynamic track to record to (giving me a visual of the master waveform). The problem I'm having is if I go R = 100 and L =100 on all the auxes the whole mix sounds EXTREMELY wide. But if I pull the levels inward then in my panning from the original mono tracks is not a true pan (e.g. 40L for a vocal is not a true 40L on the final output) I can't seem to find a good pan level in my stereo auxes that passes width and pan effectively. Hope this makes sense.

[mesaone]

Set the sends to follow main pan. Or use the track output to bus them to an AUX, instead of using a send.

[albee1952]

One disadvantage to this is that you can't keep each vocal processed with one set of plugins. Personally, I would simply add a lane to each mono track(the original source) and set these lanes to show PAN. Then automate the PAN settings and let each track feed the main mix directly, or route the 3 tracks (via track OUTPUT) to a stereo vocal master AUX for overall vocal rides Remember, the great thing about digital is; there's at least 4 ways to do everything. The bad thing about digital is; there's at least 4 ways....

[4Christ]

In that case would it work best to keep it at 100 x 100 on the stereo vocal aux? There has to be an accurate way of some sort to keep it consistent

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by 4Christ

In that case would it work best to keep it at 100 x 100 on the stereo vocal aux? There has to be an accurate way of some sort to keep it consistent

If you're using an Aux Input as a Subgroup Master, then yes you need to keep its Pans hard left and right if you expect to EVER be able to hard pan tracks feeding this subgroup.

[john1192]

could you not just edit ALL the Center vocals to a Mono track and ALL the backgrounds to L and R tracks respectively ?? now you have 3 vocal parts that are in the proper positions all the time .. less automation to keep track of .. less moving parts mean less problems usually ..

just .02