once you get better at stereo imaging, you will be able to create immersive and engaging mixes by controlling the width and placement of instruments/background vocals/lead vocals/sounds.. as in; you will be able to create a sense of depth, separate instruments/sounds/elements within your mix, while ensuring each sound/instrument/lead vocals/background vocals, has its own space to occupy while preventing any clash between two elements or among the entire ensemble, to overall improve the clarity of your sonic project.
for example; look at a live drum kit.. the placement of hats, toms, kick, snares, rim.. not many instruments occupy the middle of the stage..
Critical listening. In order to create professional sounding mixes, you have to hear what a pro mix sounds like, and in order to do that you need to be able to really listen to it and analyze what it's doing.
Try this: play a few rounds of the Pan Girl and Stereo Head games, then go to the Spotify playlist 'Songs to Test Headphones With' (I'll link it if I can, it's actually a really useful source for reference material), listen to some of the songs on there, and see what info you can get about the stereo image. How far out are the drum overheads, the rhythm guitars, the backing vocals, the synths, ect? Make a habit of that and I guarantee you will be a better mixer for it.
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May 22, 21:06