Cageofmind
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How do you guys pan your drums out when recording? Looking for some feed back, perhaps some new ideas so I can get my kit to sound better. Share your tips and tricks for getting that set sounding badass...
bennychico11 said:one thing you can try is pan your overheads where you want them and then listen to just the overheads. Then you pan your drums in the corresponding position of where they are in the overheads. For example I'll listen to the over heads, then un mute the high hat and try and find out where I heard it in just the OH mics. If i need to i'll mute the HH and listen again until I find it. I find this will give you an image of the entire kit as if you were listening from the OH perspective, which is in stereo (and probably the ONLY stereo representation of the actual kit).
Totally depends on the kind of music; it coyld be anywhere from centered mono (live jazz kit as art of trio) to all over the map (synth-o-drums with 80s sound). But more often than not I do natural stereo from X/Y or OH panned for the audience somewhere inside of 11:00 and 2:00, with the kick about 5 degress off-center.Cageofmind said:How do you guys pan your drums out when recording? Looking for some feed back, perhaps some new ideas so I can get my kit to sound better. Share your tips and tricks for getting that set sounding badass...