TW #55–56 — Panning (GBlues) / Panning? Hello? (Trixter)

Key claims#

• GBlues (#55) proposes a "second ear" channel: duplicate a lead or drum on a channel panned to the opposite side at 25 % volume to simulate the reflection your other ear hears; his fasttracker-2 example uses volume-column pan P0…PF and C10 (set volume) on the echo channel, keeping the pair centred (P3/PB). Recommended for leads and percussion, not for background pads or long vocal riffs. Bonus trick: a looped drum sample on two opposite channels at 50 % each — accent one side with a volume slide (pseudo-stereo). He also describes the "standard techno echo" as a column copied to another channel with an offset of 2 or 3 rows.
• trixter (#56) corrects the premise: a tracker pan position plays on both sides — P3 is about 80 % left and 20 % right; only full left/right pans are one-sided. The extra channel is redundant, and P0 + PF = mono.

Relevance#

The correct mental model of tracker panning (a balance, not a switch) for stereo-panning; the "opposite-side echo" survives as a stereo fake-echo idea.

Pages touched#

stereo-panning, fake-echo, fasttracker-2, trixter.