EZ Routing

[abtabt]

When routing in Pro Tools, I’ve always just sent the L side of the snare, kick, and HH to mono audio tracks and the rest to stereo tracks then printed them. I resently watched The Eyal Levi video on Creative Live, he does exactly the same except he pans both the L and R side to the left. I can’t hear the difference except with both panned L its louder. This also messes with the Comp and Reverb tracks.

Is there actually any difference between the two sides on these tracks? In the real world I’ve never seen stereo snare, kick or hats, why not just have more conventional mono tracks?

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[John]

Hi,

having a fixed set of Stereo outputs from the plugin gives much more flexibility in the long run, considering the variety of existing EZX:s and what might come in the future.
Fixing a set of Mono outputs, “locks” the plugin more to less possible mic combinations. When all are Stereo, you still have the option to pan in your host.
I haven’t seen the video you’re referring to but what I do is to pan e.g. the Kick fader hard to the Left in the EZdrummer mixer and the Snare to the Right and then route both to output 2. In Pro Tools, I create 2 Mono Aux Tracks and set one of them to the L input and the other to the Right input. EZdrummer Tracks that are Stereo in the EZdrummer mixer, I keep in Stereo in Pro Tools.

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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