SonicAlbert
Super-Sonic "Herb" Albert
I'm amazed that so far the voting is 67% for audience perspective, and 33% for drummer perspective. What amazes me about that is that 33% of the voters think drums should be mixed from the drummers perspective. I would have expected that number to be zero, or at least well under ten percent.
Why would anyone mix from drummer's perspective? The *only* person who ever hears the music that way is the drummer. Everyone else hears it the way it looks to them, and I think the recording should reflect that. At least, unless there is some special effect that is being sought. But that would be the exception to the rule.
That said, it's really not a bad poll, because other instruments have become commonly recorded from the player's position. Most notably piano. Lower notes pan to the left and higher notes pan to the right, it's so common these days in popular recordings. Classical piano is of course still recorded from audience perspective.
But drums, I don't know *why* that would done. Or even how. I mean, all the mics would have to be on the drummer side of the kit. The way drummers flail around, I could see a lot of problems getting that to work.
Why would anyone mix from drummer's perspective? The *only* person who ever hears the music that way is the drummer. Everyone else hears it the way it looks to them, and I think the recording should reflect that. At least, unless there is some special effect that is being sought. But that would be the exception to the rule.
That said, it's really not a bad poll, because other instruments have become commonly recorded from the player's position. Most notably piano. Lower notes pan to the left and higher notes pan to the right, it's so common these days in popular recordings. Classical piano is of course still recorded from audience perspective.
But drums, I don't know *why* that would done. Or even how. I mean, all the mics would have to be on the drummer side of the kit. The way drummers flail around, I could see a lot of problems getting that to work.