Wider stereo image?

When trying to pan a track hard left (or right for that matter) I can never seem to get it as wide as I would like. Is there any setting to increase the 'width' of the stereo field. At the moment when panned as far left as I can, I get the sound appearing to be at about 10 oclock as opposed to 9 oclock? Any ideas?

Hi Celfyn, you could try to listen to your recording using headphones. If you don't hear the signal just on one side (i.e. if the other is not totally quiet), the signal is routed to a second path somewhere. -Data

I'm not at my workstation at the moment so can't check what I've done, but I think I see what your saying. If I have say two vocal tracks routed through a reverb track and the reverb is centre with vocals either side, then I will still hear the reverb in the centre thus causing my problem? How can I fix this without having a reverb track for each vocal? Sorry if I'm a bit stupid about this (old guy used to working on tape)

Hi, Armed with your advice I started a new project with one track, no effects, but still panned hard left comes out in the right speaker also. Tried it with headphones, same thing! Help!!

Look at the master vu meter, if it is panned hard left and everything is normal you should see only one side of the master vu meter register. If that's the case, as I suspect, then it's the way you have your hardware monitoring set up, could be your soundcard or outboard gear.

Have you got a faulty or mono cable somewhere in the hardware chain or faulty jack input?

I had a look at my sound card settings, calibrated the speakers and it did improve, but still not perfect. I'm pretty confident that there are no cabling issues. Working on the basis that its my sound card (Creative Audigy Platinum) does any one have any experience with this card?

Pan hard left or right, then look at the master vu, is it only readin gon one side? That will tell you whether it's happening in the daw or somewhere else Nobody can help if you don't give information. PS. There isn't any way it could be your speakers

Ted, I took your previous advice and checked the master VU and as you suspected it only reads one side so, as its the same whether i use speakers or headphones, i guess it must be my soundcard. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my previous post!

What is your soundcard? I think you have some sort of FX activated there, either a reverb or some stereo processing, that is changing Reapers output to what you are hearing.