Hey guys, so i've been playing around with the panning and stereo separation on one of my tracks for about two hours now and I'm still a little confused. Or maybe I just can't discern the sounds at a higher production level..

Four channels, two mixer slots

Layer One - fruity stereo enhancer 10% (basically all the way left), fruity side reverb w/ large hall & high diffusion and 50% separation on the reverb

1. Pluck Chord octaves 6th octave - pan 30% left, 60% channel volume
2. Pluck Chord octaves 5th octave - pan 40% right, 77% channel volume

same synth, same mixer track, different octaves

Lead Synth - fruity stereo enhancer 30% (left), fruity side reverb w/ small hall & small diffusion
1. Synth 5th octave - pan 100% left
1. Synth 5th octave - pan 100% right

same synth, same mixer track, same octave, only panned opposite.

What I was trying to accomplish was to increase the stereo field such that the the pluck synths would be far out on the side with a large reverb hall to increase stereo field usage, and then take my main saw/horn synth and have that blast somewhat more toward the middle.

Would I be offsetting/masking the hard panning of the lead synth by having the pluck chord play w/ a large reverb hall? I have tried to reverse the panning and stereo separation of both layers but it seems to sound worse. There's quite a few combinations of panning and stereo enhancer and reverb settings to try.. sometimes I don't trust my ears.

Working toward a Showtek Cannonball/Slow Down/ How We Do type of composition... not even close yet their processing is unreal

Thoughts, comments, tips, experiences with working on the stereo field usign pan/sep/reverb?

Would you like to hear the track?

Cool idea and probably helps people out, but...

1) Steve Duda gives you a 30% educational discount code (just ask him, he gave me one) reducing the price to $130

2) Music production takes time, years in fact. Over this time you're losing a lot of money by "renting" Serum. Save up and buy it imo.

Decided I wanted to mess around with some melbourne bounce production.. so I go to watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8OOXHGZkA

Skipped to the :35 second mark where they are picking a kick sample. Immediately was like what the fuck, I've seen that kick drum sample before.

Turns out that exact kick drum (VDE2 Progressive kick) is the same kick sample I've found in my KillerZ and Ollie James sample packs.

Previously I noticed that my KillerZ and Ollie James packs contain a lot of the same samples, but one artist took the time to at least process them. Also one of the above artists also just blatantly re-named a Vengeance kick sample and stuck it in their pack (found by right clicking the sample -> get properties).

Both artist packs were obviously free.

Out of curiosity, how many of you have noticed this with some of your packs?

Figured I'd share. Thoughts? Who cares? Annoying? Shitty?

Good read. Favorite paragraph from there,

"At the heart of Mr Johnson's argument is this sense that the classical impulse is different from simple entertainment. Classical music offers not merely the basic pleasures of melody, harmony and rhythm, but the meanings which these elements can reveal when explored in the process of composition by a master. It is just this intense emotional and intellectual engagement, shared by composer and listener, that pop music and pop culture reject: it is definitely not cool, a quality which denies complexity, in which work followed by chilling out define the parameters of being human."

Not sure if you have a subscription to ADSR Courses, but they have a pretty decent bass house production course that you may find helpful.

If you don't, check out their free seven day trial and watch as much as you can

https://www.adsrcourses.com/categories/bass-house-production-course/5507/media

Check out this article regarding loudness and YouTube, came out May 17th

http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness/

I prefer to write my songs with a piano ever since reading something from Zedd where he said it will help your melodies sound more "organic", plus I believe a piano allows you to really hear your harmonics and note lengths better than what you will hear with most synths.

Here's a screenshot of some of the synths I use to test out my melodies though.. I'm sure you'll be able to spot many of these from sample packs (lol)

Your answer is correct Kenny.

Thank you