[Bobbers]

when you say: "hard panning settings" ..do you mean all the way to the left and all the way to right and the something in the middle ?

I (almost) never pan hard right, hard left.
Try to pan it differently. Pan something at 10 o'clock and then pan something a 13 o'clock. Left and Right don't have to be a mirror of each other.
Also listen to your track in mono and try to change the pans.
I use PAZ from waves to visualize my image, but even if the image show one side more "full" than the other, it stays that way if it sounds good! but if its a dance track ill probably wont pan the kick hard left

Hope it gave you some ideas