Reply to Is there a better way to pan things...

...than I'm currently doing it? There has to be.

I have a love-hate relationship with panning. I constantly want to create these awesome, 3D sounding, mixes where i can place things individually in space, everything sits perfectly, and we all live happily ever after. This effect is rarely as good as i'd like it to be however.

Right now if i want to have something panned out of both ears, lets say 15L and 15 R, i currently double the track and simply pan one to the left and one to the right. This is kind of a pain in the ass and eats up CPU power in the process. Is there a better way of doing this using just one track that i'm missing?