ThePhonk's mix

[Mike Senior]

I would concede the possibility that the reverb send makes an extremely subtle difference on the bass when I solo the bass and the reverb return. But I would never have spotted it in the mix!

My mix room is drier than most, and I'm monitoring very much in the nearfield, so that may make it more clearly audible here.

The vocal's panning of 4% to the right was intentional (not so sure about the reverb send on the bass), to counterbalance the guitar, which lives on the left.

Interesting reason, although not the one I'd expected. That kind of panning is pretty minimal, so while I would justify it in terms of slightly spreading the central sources to increase the sense of separation in stereo, I'm not sure it really counterbalances the guitar -- that's more the ukelele doing that.

Just had another glance at the project. There's some other unusual panning too -- both room mics 8% right, for instance. Not that it really poked me in the eye as being odd when I listened, so it's all pretty academic in practice -- a lot of stereo information's lost on most people anyway!