Track Panning
If you listen to the sound effect now, you’ll find that it’s quickly becoming muddy, thick, too full. This is because there are too many sounds occupying the same space – whether it be volume space, frequency space, or physical space. The last one would make sense to change here, since the different sound effects would come from different locations. So let’s use the panning tool to push the traffic to our right and the dogs to the left.
- To push the traffic to the right, we can enter a number for the pan, should be between 0-100. 75 would push the sound in that direction … a lot.
- To do the dogs, we’ll do the same thing, but the inverse. So we’ll use a negative 75.
- Let’s split the crickets and ambience as well; pushing the ambience to the right, this time by specifying R instead of +
- And the crickets can use a L instead of –
It’s really important to note here that if your session was created in Mono instead of stereo, you wouldn’t be able to use this feature. Also note that you can create 5.1 surround sound sessions – which is awesome. But we won’t talk about that here. Sorry. You’re going to have to play around by yourself.
