Preciate y'alls help though.

@Tom Baldwin You were right, bro. I am referring to Reason. Turns out I had a midside router connected to every mix bus that I didn't know how to connect. I found a Reason Users group on Facebook and someone told me how to do it, so I should be good with this next mix. Of course, you don't know what you don't know, so we'll see if any other problems pop up. I'll get it eventually. Then I'll be somewhat fluent in two different DAWs with totally different workflows.

@Jay Morris I use it at the very end of my mix buses. I throw that SSL X-ValveComp on the master bus for groove, then Multiband Compressor (to be honest I can't tell you the textbook purpose of it; I just practiced using what I know about compression till I got to the point where I can do it pretty fast), and the Softube Bus Processor for the final glue since it's got all those bells and whitstles. I wanna get that Bus Processor 670.

@Tom Baldwin You are so very right. I do remember I used to bounce my entire "mix" to a single mono summed track and then bounce that single summed track into two stereo tracks. I forgot all about that lol. I promise I've come way far from those days. So let me give a little more context. I make hip and R&B beats usinh MIDI. Most of the melodic instruments' L and R channels modulate by varying levels according to the nature of the sound I use. I don't use real instruments. My mixes have one track per sound. I see in a lot of Jake's MTM sessions, there may be like 2 or 3 guitar tracks all playing the same thing not including any solo rifts (to my understanding). My end goal is to get more efficient in how I mix. I can get a really good sounding mix, but it takes me anywhere from a month to a month and half to do it. One area I spend a lot of time in pocket EQ. When I'm mixing a beat with 39 tracks, it does take 3 or 4 days and that was once I got efficient at pocket EQ. This is my first time doing it on Reason and it's taking even longer because I have to turn the analog style knobs individually. If there were a way to space out the tracks before I get to the reverb stage, I'll have a dope sounding mix. Reason uses the SSL 9000 sound board emulation and you can instantly hear the difference when I used to export the tracks from Reason to Pro Tools. I don't see how pros could get the the type of mixes they get using Pro Tools without using using top notch external gear. But anyway, I thought panning might the way to go, but when I listen to mainstream hip hop/rap and R&B, every sound is the same in both speakers and the L and R channels are moving at different levels like the volumes of the two channels on an VU meter. It looks like panning isn't what I'm looking for. Keeping everything centered but at different widths has been doing what I want, but the pocket EQ is just time consuming, especially when most days, I'm only mixing for about 3 or 4 hours.

@Tom Baldwin Bet. I'll keep looking out a process that simplifies what I've been doing. I love that idea you with the two sets of guitars. When I get established enough to pay musicians to play their real instruments, I'll definitely be trying that out.