I actually pan drums and bass hard left, everything else hard right, and then when I route both channels to my PA mixer, I pan both center.

This gives me the ability to pump up or tame down the bass and drums while still having a mono mix to the room.

When doing 'dinner sets' or 'sonic wallpaper' I tweak the left channel down a bit (bass/drums) and for dance sets I tweak it up a bit.

This works well for me.

I run 2 mics, 2 guitars (via amp sims), 4 computer sound modules, and my backing tracks into a mixer - everything is panned center.

If one speaker needs to be louder or softer than the other, I adjust this with the master L & R faders (post mix - in mono).

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