track panning bleeds?

tbobpage wrote on 9/14/2006, 3:02 PM

Hi All --

I've got a project with a "stereo" audio track, where the left is music and the right is vocals. When I play the track and pan it left or right, I hear voices in the music panning left and vice-versa on the right. However, if I go to the master ("mixer") and drop the volume of either L or R channels then the audio is sorted just fine. It's like the track isn't separating the audio correctly.

Am I missing something here or what? Why does it behave this way?

Using Vegas 6 with delta44 audio in winXP

thanks,

todd

Comments

pwppch wrote on 9/14/2006, 3:20 PM

Pan is not simple left/right gain control of the existing stereo media.

The master bus has left right a it is merely controling the output to the hardware. It is not panning the image.

You might want to try the different pan laws available. RIght click on the track's pan control and select the pan you want.

If you want to control this better, load the file onto two tracks, and the tell the event (right click) what channel you want that track to play.

What you end up with is two tracks: One for the music and one is the vocals. You can then mix things down how you want.

Peter

tbobpage wrote on 9/14/2006, 5:22 PM

I found it finally -- rt click on the pan control and they are defaulted to "add" -- changed to balance and it behaves like I was hoping. I searched the manual first time around and missed it, went back and turned up the info under "audio panning modes"

-- thanks for your reply Peter!

todd