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== Panning ==
Each track typically features ''panning'', which shifts the audio to be more prominent in one stereo field vs. the other. This is useful to create a 3-D effect. For instance, individual drums are often panned differently to give a greater feeling of separation and width. Guitars are often double-tracked and each track is panned in opposite directions, making the guitars sound bigger and wider but not necessarily disparate. Many stereo effects, such as reverb, vary their left/right output to create a 3-D illusion; and panning them full left/right eliminates the effect.
''NOTE: When it comes to stereo tracks, panning is not the same thing as balance, typically found on consumer stereo devices. Balance simply adjusts the volume of the left field vs. right field, whereas panning "pushes" the right field into the left when panning to the left and vice versa. In other words, balance full left simply mutes the right field. Panning full left means that the original left and right fields are equally present in the left field while the right field now contains no sound.''
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