Panning Question

[The-Edge]

Hello,
I'm completely losing my mind here so bear with me please, I'll try to lay this out as simple as possible. I've been working with Pro Tools for awhile just really getting into using mix templates and routing.

I have a Mono Guitar track if set the output to my monitors and pan hard left
the sound comes from my left studio monitor. If I send the output to my Aux input for guitars that output goes to my monitors, and pan hard left the sound comes from my left studio monitor. However I am sending all my aux inputs guitars, drums, vocals to a Submix aux input and as such I hear that hard left panned guitar in both monitors ?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but i'm trying to separate multiple guitar tracks to widen a mix.

Thanks in advance

[albee1952]

There's a few ways to look at this:
#1-why use the AUX track? Would using a VCA make more sense?
#2-Is the AUX track stereo?(it should be for submixing or grouping)
#3-if things still sound wrong, review your routing and panning on everything, and make sure there are no hidden tracks(hidden tracks still are heard unless they are muted or made inactive).


A good way to widen guitars is to play each part twice on 2 separate(mono) tracks and hard-pan away from each other(this is traditional "double-tracking"). Another way is to pan a guitar track to one side, and send to a MONO AUX track with a MONO reverb that gets panned the opposite(Dverb is great for this, just shorten the time to around 1.8 to 2 seconds). Listen to the intro of Led Zep's Whole Lotta Love to hear what I mean

[albee1952]

It might also be worth checking your monitors by putting up a MONO AUX track and insert the Signal Generator plugin. Set it to pink noise and pan it left to right. If the sound doesn't follow the panning, then you may have a wiring problem or connection problem

[The-Edge]

Thank You Gentlemen,
I'm embarrassed to say I was watching a video on mixing in mono and had it turned on in my Sonarworks Reference Plugin. So all is well. I must need a break :)

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by The-Edge

Thank You Gentlemen,
I'm embarrassed to say I was watching a video on mixing in mono and had it turned on in my Sonarworks Reference Plugin. So all is well. I must need a break :)

You're not the first Just remember to bypass that plugin whenever you bounce to disk

[JamesTheBest]

Thanks for this solution. You helped me a lot!