Pan Control: The Most Misunderstood Knob in Logic Pro

With a mono signal on a Channel Strip for example a guitar track you can use the Pan Pot to easily position the signal in the stereo field by moving the Pan Pot to the left or right and even automate a pan movement... As you can see when you pan extreme left you turn down the right channel of that signal on that Channel Strip and therefore not hearing that part of the signal in this case ping2 and ping 3.. This is what happens when you recorded the guitar as mono and use the Pan Knob in Logic.. This is an extreme signal but no matter what you should be aware that when using the Pan Knob on a stereo signal you are turning dow. Now let's see what happens when you record this as a mono signal compared to when when he uses a stereo delay and you record that stereo signal..  Read more