I was rendering to mono tracks till very recently. I just switched back to stereo tracks on my last couple songs. Instead of panning the tracks I used izotope Neutron to spread the stereo field for each track. I got the idea from working on EDM tracks where many synths are mixed this way to give a wide and full stereo sound to the music.

Listen here...
https://soundcloud.com/user-742389722/love-is-a-poker-game


Samuel Davis Jr
BIAB 2018 + Cubase + Ignite
BMI

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