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

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EvanDrumm said:
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probably due to the fact that superior has the kit configured from a player's perspective, I pan the kit from a player's perspective
 
I pan the drums from the audience perspective. I record a lot of ensemble acoustic music with several drummers and melodic musicians. I like to create an audio picture that represents what the audience hears. The only change I might make is if I get a conflict in the placement and then I will shift a little so both instruments will be heard. For some folks, this isn't important, but it is important to me.
When I am playing drums, I am not playing them so that the mix sounds good to my ears because I am sitting over the drums, they will definitely be louder and need to be so that they are heard with the other instruments from the audience. I am playing music for the audience and therefore when I am mixing them I mix them from the audiences perspective.
 
RAMI said:
Me too, but I'm left-handed. So that should illustrate how little it matters. :)
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It really doesn't matter, but I said it mattered to me to try to capture as accurate an audio picture of a performance. So it is a personal choice.
 
I will say that it matters to me only if I'm doing a video. Then I'd want the audio panning to match the visual. If the toms are going left to right in the video, then I'd want the audio to match that.
 
Well of course it doesn't 'matter'. 99% of the things that come up in this forum don't matter. Yet, here we all are.......
Some of us like to discuss things and find out other peoples' approaches to various things or opinions on various things. Some of what one discovers may change one's mind, or it may not. Something that one discovers may nudge that person towards trying a new thing or it may not. The issue isn't whether it matters or not. In fact, whether a matter like drum panning from particular perspectives matters or not is as utterly irrelevant as it could hope to be.
But it is interesting {when you haven't been part of the debate a zillion times}.
 
grimtraveller said:
whether a matter like drum panning from particular perspectives matters or not is as utterly irrelevant as it could hope to be.
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So, not only does it not matter. It doesn't even matter that it doesn't matter. In other words, the fact that it doesn't matter whether it matters is utterly irrelevant.

Wow! Talk about not mattering. :eek:

:D
 
Yeah, something like that ! :D
In all seriousness though, the fact that something doesn't, in the ultimate analysis, matter, doesn't mean it's of no value to discuss it. But then, I like debate so I would say that ! :)
 
I also use the drummers perspective, but I've been surprised that many bands use the audience perspective (e.g., Rush).
 
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