As someone in a similar boat as OP, I would love to know more!

Turns out early audio consoles with stereo didn’t have a pan knob. They had a pan switch. So choices were limited to left, right, or center (mono).

Wasn’t til later that the pan pot was invented allowing incremental panning and true stereo mixing.

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I mean, you can make eye contact with it if you want.

What’s it’s name? I named mine “Mr. Roombastic”

This would be a great question for chatGPT.