A note to ad: It's always good to route the main instrument buss and all parallel busses to a new output buss to have overall control of whole instrument and you can see the sum of all signals on New output buss meter.

Check my SC profile and listen to some of my newest songs (the newer the better mixing and mastering I guess :) ) and hear where individual sounds are placed.  http://soundcloud.com/dantopic I'm not a master but trying to do my best. I had been also struggling with good sound - like everybody I thi...

There are some ¨problem children¨ like guitar, piano and sax for example. These instruments can occupy wide EQ spectrum so it's not easy to combine them together, in addition with vocals. So I always parallel them and pan aside. They sound like centered but more wide and there's still enough place ...

Well, kicks and basses should stay mostly centered - low frequencies are difficult to determine directon they come from anyway. I have listened to couple of your track and mostly they sound like many instruments are in center. I would make e.g. for piano 3 parallel channels and split 2 to the right ...

It's always better to pan and EQ than limit...

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What I meant is to right-click to appropriate bus on your SSL mixer and choose ¨Add parallel channel¨. Now you have 2 channels for one track and you can add some inserts to change your parallel bus sound. 

Hi. Do you want to double the sound using 2 combinators? What for? You can use parallel chanels in SSL mix.