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Tutorial—Mixdown
— Tutorial
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cases where the drums or other instrument seems to occupy the entire stereo
field, try panning the left and right channels between about a third and half way
to the maximum values. In the case of the “So Fine” demo, however, the drums
were recorded “live” in the studio with proper stereo imaging (i.e. this is not a
sampler or drum module), and sound fine panned full left and right. Go ahead
and set the left and right drum track pan values to L16 and R16, respectively.
To pan the drum tracks:
1. Use the [SEL] keys to select the track you’re going to pan (since the chan-
nels are paired, the other [SEL] key will flash when one is selected).
2. Use the PAN control near the upper right corner of the display while watch-
ing the graphic pan controls in the display.
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Add the Claves/Electronic Drums Track
For now just turn channel 3 ON and set the fader at about –4.5 dB.
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Add the Bass Track
Turn on channel 4 and listen. Bass is usually panned to center so you won’t need
to adjust the pan control, but you might find that the bass is a little hot (loud) in
relation to the drum tracks with their faders at nominal, so move fader 4 down to
reduce the bass track level by about 5 dB (“–5.0” on the fader display).
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Add the Guitar Tracks
Turn ON channel 5 and 6. The guitar tracks are REALLY hot in relation to the
drums and bass, so use faders 5 and 6 to reduce them to reasonable levels (track
5 rhythm guitar to about –10.5 dB, and track 6 lead guitar also to about –10.5
dB). Also pan the track 5 guitar to the left and the track 6 guitar to the right (about
L14 and R15, respectively).
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Add the Organ & Piano Tracks
Turn ON channel 7 and 8. The organ and piano tracks will also need to be
reduced in level a bit, so use faders 7 and 8 to reduce the track 7 organ to about
–9.8 dB, and track 8 piano to about –10.5 dB. Also pan the track 7 organ a little
to the left and the track 8 piano a little to the right (about L11 and R9, respec-
tively).
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Add the String Tracks
Like the drum tracks, the “So Fine” string tracks are basically a stereo pair. After
turning channels 9 and 10 ON and making sure that the faders are both at exactly
the same level, use the same pairing technique described for the drum tracks,
above, to pair the string tracks. Then reduce the level to about –5.7 dB, and pan
the string tracks left and right (about L13 and R13).