Bus panning?

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2016/02/19 15:58:31 (permalink)

Bus panning?

May sound like a stupid question but........
 
I've got a few guitar tracks going into a guitar bus. Each of the tracks is panned differently (100R/100L/50R/50L, etc.). The guitar bus is center panned. Does the bus center panned have any effect on the panning of the individual tracks? Or is center just the default? I really don't hear any effect, and the tracks seem to be panned correctly when I solo each one and the bus.
 
So I guess I'm just wondering under what circumstances I would use the bus pan when all individual tracks being sent there are panned as I like them....
 
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    Re: Bus panning? 2016/02/19 17:12:26 (permalink)
    You're certainly not wrong by having your busses centrally panned - all of mine are except when I want to do something a bit off the wall and pan a buss L/R for special effect.
     
    I know that when stereo tracks are panned the pan control acts exactly like a balance control on Hi-Fi systems - as one channel is attenuated, so the other channel increases in volume - there's a fair chance that the same logic applies to busses, as they are being fed with stereo signals.

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