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When recording drums, do you usually pan using the audienence perspective, or the drummers?
 
It depends on if I'm mixing in front of or behind my monitors.
 
Ive got a home recording book that says in England engineers pan the drums as the drummer hears it...in America they usually pan as the audience would hear it...so...where are you....
 
I always pan from the audience point. Why would you do it any other way? Unless it is ONLY drummers that buy the songs..
 
LOL, roadkill !

Uhm, is that drummer Right or Left handed??
well, there's the answer: it doesn't matter!

If you like to mix how the drummer hears it.. fine.
wanna mix like you're in front of the kit... fine too.

it's your mix, your imagination, your perseption.

I tend to mix it little different (not exacltly like any one would here it):

I try to put ALL bass in the center, also the floor toms
typical:
kick, center
snare, center
hihat, 50% left
ride, 50% right
tom1, 25% left
tom2, 25% right
floor, center
OH (snare), hard left
OH (floor), hard right

It just depends on what I want to create. Do you want wide drums or more mono drums.. it's up to you. Just make a decision on the WHOLE band.

good luck
 
You could mix like the Beatles did and send all the drums to one side..
 
I'm glad somebody got the joke.

I've been doing all my drums in mono. It's easy, takes less tracks and you get a lot of punch. To me that big stereo drum sound is too 80's sounding.
 
Rhythmsavant said:
Ive got a home recording book that says in England engineers pan the drums as the drummer hears it...in America they usually pan as the audience would hear it...so...where are you....
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Would that book be "The Musician's Guide To Home Recording"? :)
 
I like to organize my sounds according to frequency.

All cymbals and hi-hats on the left, snares in the middle, toms and kick on the right.

My mixes have a very efficient, almost alphabetical sound. :D
 
It depend what country your from. Brit tend to pan based upon the drummers view and the American tend to pan from the audiences view. Im left handed and played drums right handed because thats the way I was taught. I mix from the perspective of the player because as a kid, being a drummer was a better fantasy dream than it was to be in the audience listening to the drummer. So...when Im working for other people, I flip the l/r to the nearfields or headphones while the client gets the mains. Works for me. YMMV


SoMm
 
Mark7 said:
Would that book be "The Musician's Guide To Home Recording"? :)
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Thats the book...IMHO with that $20 book and this board you can get pretty far...
 
That's all much to confusing for a lefthanded European.
What about 5.1?
 
i always went drummers perspective... i nearly had a nervous breakdown when i came a cross a lefthanded drummer! i agree with tex on the mono drum thing. sound a shitload fatter to me, besides when the hell is the audience in a position to here live drums with a huge stereo seperation
 
I always liked it from the drummers view, but noticed that drum samples and workstations pan from the audience view.
 
I always go drumers view because I adjust the mics from sitting on the drum stool so it's easier to invision in my mind where I want to move mic's to. I don't have to deal with the mirror image that way.




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