Actually, it is, until the pan width goes past 100%. Most processors that produce the effect do so by feeding an inverted portion of each channel into the other. This is the classic "Stereo Wide" button on old boomboxes, in a nutshell. More modern processors can throw a cowbell way past the left or right speaker and spin it around your head with enough realism, some folks get motion sickness.Len911 wrote: Panning is not the same as stereo width.
Len911 wrote:So probably nowadays, mono-compatiblity isn't as important as phase cancellation is?? Mono is mainly a quick reference for how much signal you are losing and/or re-inforcing. A way to hear what the correlation meter is showing you.
To my mind, mono compatibility is more important than phase alignment, cuz the resultant comb-filtering can be used for creative purposes, whereas a kick drum panned too hard can make the needle pop out of a vinyl record, which is why phase meters were invented, in the first place. The trouble with guessing is that your mix will hopefully be played back on thousands, maybe millions of playback systems. Think about it; best case scenario, people are gonna hear your music while shopping, in glorious mono, over a distributed seventy-volt system.
