[Blast9]

Great thread,

Mics set up to receive L & R signals in a nice room = great imaging and depth.

I agree with what advice is being given here, especially re different sounds panned, playing the same lines.

Don't forget to mess around with the ambient stereo stuff behind the main instruments, whether that's the room mics, or the synth/gtr stuff you've processed with delay/revb etc.

You can get a lot of mileage out of sticking those sounds through dual mono compressors with different ratios , threshold, attack release times. This can create minage shift and give a nice sense of movement.

Also automating the dry/wet balance at different parts can help.

Just my 0.0002 euro cents worth