How do you pan effects?

[NEIGHTD]

I've noticed in several posts, people sayin how they pan certain effects to the left or right. Not the sound just the effects. My question is, is this possible in pro tools le and if so how?

[skycraft]

If you are sending your signal through a send to, say an aux channel, and this aux has an effect on it, you would be able to pan the output of the aux independently from the source signal.

For example you might have vox on track one and use a send to bus signal to an aux. The input of the aux is set to whatever bus you assigned the send to on the vox track. The original vox track and the aux track each have their own pan control. This will allow you to pan the original vox signal hard left and the aux return hard right.

Hope this made sense. Pretty basic really. There are different variations on this with stereo sends and returns, but the principles are the same.

If you insert the effect in the original track, this won't be possible, because there is only one pan control.

[NEIGHTD]

Thanks that was pretty simple I use aux sends all the time but never thought of using them like that.

[mikenienaber]

hey, to eliminate your source from the aux, don't forget to activate the 'pre'(fader) button