Panning: Infront of the kit, or behind the kit?

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Hey guys,
I was just wondering, when panning your drums, do like to pan them as if your on the drum throne behind the kit, or in the audience, in front of the kit.
Right now I am panning them to be from the audience, but would like to know how you guys go about doing it for your own recordings?:D
 
Being a right-handed drummer, it kinda feels uncomfortable to hear the floor tom coming from the left side of the monitors. I usually mix this way but if someone prefers the other perspective I just swap em @ final mix. :)
 
I pan from the audience perspective. That's how I'm looking at the drummer when they're tracking. That's how the mics are labled and panned.
 
i pan from drumers pers. i dont like floor tom in left speaker......
 
There are likely to be as many people who pan from the drummer's perspective as there are fro the audience's perspective.

I always pan from the audience perspective, because, as a mixer, that's how I create a mix . . . as if I was in the audience, not in the band.
 
Wow. Give this one a rest. Search for the threads that have already been made about this. I vote there should be a sticky thread listing all the topics you should not ever post about:

-Drum Panning
-Egg Carton Treatment
-Guitar Panning
-Instrument EQing and other processing (without sound samples given to the public)
-Getting a T-Pain or Double Tracking effect
-How to make x instrument sound like x artist, even if the recordings on the way in are absolute garbage

Anyone care to add more?
 
First of all, thanks to everyone who responded.

Secondly, I searched and didn't find any threads on this topic, my mistake.
I wasn't making this for help or advice, I was just creating a discussion for people to compare.

Finally, Greg. How on earth does this not matter?!?! the perspective in which you hear something DOES matter, that's what panning is all about. If it didn't matter, there would be no panning at all.
It obviously matters to the posters above you, with posts like "it kinda feels uncomfortable to hear the floor tom coming from the left side of the monitors"
 
Finally, Greg. How on earth does this not matter?!?! "

The answer is simple: it just doesn't. The posters above are just spouting their own personal preferences, which don't really matter. Neither does mine. Your listener doesn't give a fuck if it's panned from the drummer's perspective or audience perspective. I never said panning doesn't matter. I'm saying that which perspective you choose doesn't matter. 99% of your listeners don't know a floor tom from a hi-hat or where they occur in the drum stereo field. They just hear drums. As a drummer and a recorder, I have my own personal preferences as to where I pan my stuff. and guess what? It doesn't fucking matter. I do it the way I do it, you do it the way you do it, he does it the way he does it, they do it the way they do it, and we're all right. Nowhere in the universe is there a law that says "drums must be panned this way".
 
Yer walkin on shaky ground ther pardner. LOL! In the end it really doesn't matter unless someone payin you gives a sh*t. Go with what feels good. And try not to get on G's bad side if you want to enjoy coming here. Just sayin'!;);)
 
The answer is simple: it just doesn't. The posters above are just spouting their own personal preferences, which don't really matter. Neither does mine. Your listener doesn't give a fuck if it's panned from the drummer's perspective or audience perspective. I never said panning doesn't matter. I'm saying that which perspective you choose doesn't matter. 99% of your listeners don't know a floor tom from a hi-hat or where they occur in the drum stereo field. They just hear drums. As a drummer and a recorder, I have my own personal preferences as to where I pan my stuff. and guess what? It doesn't fucking matter. I do it the way I do it, you do it the way you do it, he does it the way he does it, they do it the way they do it, and we're all right. Nowhere in the universe is there a law that says "drums must be panned this way".

EXACTLY!! I wasn't asking what panning was the best? I was more asking what they do personally, and maybe they have a reason as to why!?
I (unfortunately?) always notice the way that drums are panned in songs :/.
 
@jimmys69
ahaa, i know. but discussing is good, if someone can't take an argument.. then that's pretty weak. Greg can take it. I've actually been here longer than you and check it everyday.. I just never post :P!
 
EXACTLY!! I wasn't asking what panning was the best? I was more asking what they do personally, and maybe they have a reason as to why!?

It doesn't matter why people pan their drums the way they do.
 
Sure, but why does someone else's opinion matter on panning drums? Are you looking for ideas?
No I'm not. Everyone has a voice, and i think they should be able to express what they like and why. Noone HAS to listen to then.. But it is good to keep in mind what works for some people, some people may not even know anything about panning.. if they came to a thread like this one, they could learn something :S.
 
I pan my drums from the drummer's perspective. I'm the drummer, and the recorder, and the mixer, and the producer, and that's how I want to hear them. I don't care if anyone else likes them that way. The listener's perspective means nothing to me. They are the way I want them.
 
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