Innovason takes the lid off Pandora

Pandora is the name given to the latest addition to Innovason’s Eclipse GT digital console, with the manufacturer describing it as ‘a new way of panning that provides audibly better results across the listening field than traditional stereo panning’.

Conceived by renowned classical sound engineer Carsten Kummel, the idea behind Pandora was reportedly the ‘loss of signal on one side when you pan to the other’ in stereo panning. In order to address the problem, Mr Kummel began experimenting with different delays, the results of which, he says, ‘opened up a whole new world of possibilities’.

Mr Kummel took his findings to Hervé de Caro, the designer of the Eclipse console, and Innovason subsequently decided to incorporate the new system into the desk as an algorithm based on a single pan pot.

Intended primarily for use in symphonic applications, Pandora is described by Mr Caro in enthusiastic terms: ‘We have finally found a way to pan a signal from full left to full right to create the feeling of a stereo image for the entire audience, no matter where you are sat, without losing any information for those sat at the extremes, and no loss of sound quality for those sat in the middle’.

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