How to True Stereo Pan NOT just balancing

[Glenn Stanton]

one consideration - using a surround buss - set it to 2.1 in the preferences, skip the LFE, and now you can set width, depth, and position of any stereo channel and position. depth for mono. be aware some plugins can misbehave on the surround buss so be careful to only put them on the stereo busses and channels. fyi, you can have several surround busses feeding into a master surround buss - so expanding ambience and effects beyond the "stereo" field can be managed separately... always check in mono though to see if collapsing those effects causes a problem to your mix - used judiciously, it's typically not an issue.