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If it's the producer's intention to place low bass to one side, then so be it. But I think it's a very bad practice
I am sorry and a bit saddened that anyone could think that evo. Quite often when we do pan LF elements there is a complementary one on the other side. I am very proud to have Produced, Mixed, and Mastered these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFR3cUW7ogA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWWenAbeYW8
The first has cellos and bodhráns (celtic hand played frame drums)
Probably best heard on headphones the panning of the LF elements causes deliberate and very substantial shifts in the sound field. On full range speakers it stimulates great action in the room, LF action.
The second has two bass guitars, same instrument and player. Some panning was needed to distinguish them and to again cause colourful substantial shifts of the LF part of the field.
Particularly in the first making below 80Hz Mono would be very destructive.
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I think noone ever disagreed that a normal kickdrum is locatable. But it's only the higher frequency content that is responsible for this, not the low frequencies.
Again, anyone with full range speakers and Kick drum samples can easily test this. Not a single poster here has challenged the fact that a single speaker trying to represent a Kick sample with everything above 80Hz removed, is reliably locatable.
Please note that my reference to any earlier debate, bickerfest to be frank, had one of the posters here absolutely insisting that a Kick Drum was Omni. Didn't matter which direction it faced. The recorded sample I posted proved otherwise.
I do think it is both possible and likely that the committee of people who have made some of the worlds greatest recordings may have good reason to hold such a strong opinion regarding the preference of full range speakers. I hold two opinions on the matter, well recognising the benefits of multiple subs.
However, as I said before, a 5 channel system of full range speakers has 5 subs. Although they be not optimally placed to garner the LF benefits nicely shown here by Jens etc, I quite like listening to stereo material in 4.0, full range speakers.
DD