What if you want to place your stereo track like piano to your left when mixing? Do you get right track volume fader down or move right track pan pot to center? Or is there any other way? Or do you record mono piano track?
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If the piano is recorded in stereo/lo-Hi, and the right/high fader is pulled down, then the sound will come more from the left, but with less of the high notes. That's cool if you want it to sound like you moved your head more towards the low strings, but if you want to just move the whole piano toward the left.....pan pots.
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Originally posted by starlight: What about phase cancelation?
If you've got phase issues from moving that little bit towards mono, you might need to re-examine your stereo piano mic technique. In a rock/pop mix where such panning options may be necessary, it's a lot easier to deal with a more "collapsible" stereo image, from say an X-Y pair (like an SM69 in dual cardioid), or even blumlein or M-S. Spaced pairs, and quasi ORTF can be a little more difficult to "converge" and pan with.
