From list@sevush.com Tue Oct 21 11:07:32 2003
Subject:Re: Submixers stereo-mono

Pan is simply a level for each channel - left and right - that is inverted
with respect to each other. for each.

If you are taking the left output, it is "pure" and never mixed (normally)
w/the right output.
Example: run a high pitched sine wave into the left channel and a low
pitched raucous square tooth into the right. It will be quite obvious which
channel you're hearing, or if they're blending.

Take your left output and run it where you like - amp, FOH, wherever. As you
play w/the gain for the channel in question, you will hear only the sine
wave.

Now vary the pan control. You will hear the sine wave get softer and as you
get closer to center, louder. In theory, from center until you're fully
panned to the left you'll hear no change from the left channel - it only
gets softer when you pan right so that the right input appears louder. You
will hear no square wave, except perhaps for crosstalk.

As long as this is a STEREO mixer and there's no FX send/summing going on,
the left output will only represent the information plugged into the left
input.

> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Dan S wrote:
> > Not complicated, but not correct. Why would they
> be "combined/mixed together
> > at the main out"??
>
> BECAUSE THEY ARE PANNED TO THE CENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!