Producer of about 3.5 years here. I've always had this paranoia that my tracks are too centered and one-dimensional. I love the idea of creating mixes that occupy a physical space but have had trouble achieving it as I don't really have a go-to method besides throwing some arbitrary reverb and panning on a track. Lately I've been trying to use panning and a directional mixer to adjust presence, but I have a lot of trouble letting a sound that I love slip to the background, even if it needs to. What are your go-to techniques for making space in your mix and spreading the sound out?
Extra note: I once visited a hi-fi audio store and the salesman sat me down to listen to this great jazz record on their $200k system. He showed me the back of the record sleeve and it had a diagram of where all of the instruments/mics were placed during actual recording and you could really hear this directionality from the stereo as if you were listening to the band in person. This kind of control over the stereo field is what I would like to achieve.
Submitted January 24, 2018 at 11:53AM by Isaacital https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7snl05/how_to_utilize_the_entire_stereo_field/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, January 24, 2018