Drum Panning?

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for now, i'm recording with 4 mics on the drums...2 overheads, snare, and a bass. am i supposed to pan the 2 overheads hard left and right? but whenever i do that...the snare seems to have too much of a chorus on it. also, what do i do with the snare?

i will soon be getting more mics so i can mic the toms up individually. where should they go?
 
That's not a "chorus", that's 'comb filtering'... start with one mic, say the mic in front of the kik drum... then add one mic at a time in "one speaker mono"... move that mic until it sounds great with the first mic... repeat as necessary until all the mics on the kit give you a good sounding representation of the drum kit... then pan into stereo [though personally I'm a huge fan of mono drum kits!!] and move on with your day.

Best of luck.
 
just watch the drum kit from the front:

hi-hats: right
snare: center
kick drum: center
rack tom 1: right
rack tom 2: left
floor tom: left

same with overheads.

maybe someones dont like it. but it works perfect for me
 
this is a debate an a 1/2 of drummer perspective or audence perspective. and also which way your drummer does his rolls will sometimes decide this as well and for the record the majority of comercial albums mix for the audence perspective vs the drummers. I tend to do both depending on the song but decide that based on the drummer the cymbols and the style of music.
 
well...it is a chorus effect...

You are having the snare signal plus other two signals with the snare arriving at different times...really small difference...

and a chorus is that...a delay at around 50 ms

But yes, you are having some frecuencies being cancelled too...

Either do what you have been suggested so far or try delaying slightly the overheads.

Peace

PC
 
well...it is a chorus effect...

You are having the snare signal plus other two signals with the snare arriving at different times...really small difference...
and a chorus is that...a delay at around 50 ms...if you are panning the overheads hard left and right.

And yes, you will have some frecuencies cancelled if you pan the overheads to the center...

Either do what you have been suggested so far or try delaying slightly the overheads.

Peace

PC
 
being a drummer, I (idealy) want my kit to sound how i play it. So, seeing as how i can accomplish that on a recording, i pan it as if the listener was the drummer.

basically draw a line down the middle of the drum set. left goes left a little bit, right goes right a little bit. And, i don't pan much at all. The most I pan is usually 3/9 o clock. oh yeah, snare and kick middle.
 
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