Panning

Panning isn’t normally used with lead melodies or points of focus as this can be disorienting and shift the focus onto something else unintentionally. It also shouldn’t constantly be on the instrument carrying the groove, but can be at appropriate points. A bass part acting as the song’s foundation should be kept in one place to avoid losing impact or shifting focus onto the wrong parts.

The guitar is hard panned to the left during everything besides the chorus. During the chorus, two guitar parts that are playing almost identically with slightly different tones are panned to the left and right. This creates the image of the chorus having more texture and as a result sounding larger. Backing vocals are layered on every second line during the verse and are there throughout the entire chorus. These vocals are panned and create depth as they’re quieter than the lead vocals.

Take A Look Around pans the guitar in the introduction by bouncing it between each side and has the drums almost exclusively to the left before jumping into the verse. During the chorus, distorted guitar is hard panned to the left before being doubled up to be balanced. I think each side is a different recording instead of being duplicated and slightly shifted out of sync. The vocals never pan, which means the focus is always centered despite the heavy left side panning of drums in the introduction and guitar in the start of the chorus.

The whispering pans from left to right in the introduction with each vocal triplet and some guitar parts are panned to the left during the same section. The same guitar riff is repeated in a more developed section following the introduction and is panned to the left and right every two lines. Then, in the verse, several guitar parts are panned in different ways. There’s a distorted pattern that plays exclusively to the right and a reverby part that is almost balanced on each side.