Audience vs. Drummer Perspective :D

[Joel4662]

I perfer drummer perspective, cause I am a drummer (when I listen to a mix in audience I switch my earphones it drives me nuts)
Joey used to do audience but uses drummers now

Anyways mind sharing your *perspectives* (pun )

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

audience makes more sense but i can't stand it. if the hihat is not on the left i freak out.

the way i think about it, is, even though audience perspective makes more sense - anyone that makes up a typical "audience" is not going to notice anyway, and anyone that would is most likely a drummer (or at least a musician in general) and would more than likely be annoyed, as i am, by the kit being "backwards"

 

[GearMan2point0]

audience makes more sense but i can't stand it. if the hihat is not on the left i freak out.

the way i think about it, is, even though audience perspective makes more sense - anyone that makes up a typical "audience" is not going to notice anyway, and anyone that would is most likely a drummer (or at least a musician in general) and would more than likely be annoyed, as i am, by the kit being "backwards"

haha, I am the exact same way! I always have done drummers perspective, always will. I wasn't a drummer until recently, but even before I got annoyed by the audience perspective.

 

[Redline4]

what if I do lefty drummer perspective ? HAHA. Just kidding, I do drummer perspective aswell

 

[OneDaySky]

I used to swear by Audience perspective but made a discovery years ago, that all my favorite albums had Drummer perspective! Either that means it works better commercially or its coz im a muso ;P I guess we need to ask ppl tat don't play instruments.

 

[Mm1066]

I love drummer perspective. I think fills sound better when they run from left to right.

 

[GearMan2point0]

I agree left to right sounds much more natural. It probably because of how our mind morphed to be that way since we read left to right, write left to write...etc

 

[DullElysium]

1 more for drummers perspective. It irritates my brain when I hear the hihat on the left and tom rolls from right to left. I'd propably switch my headphones around too but then the lead guitar would be on the right and that's not good for my sensitive brain.

Drummers perspective makes more sense to me since the guitars usually are lead o the left and rhythm on the right. And the drums need to follow the same pattern to me. Higher toms on the left and lower on the right.

 

[idontpullout]

Drummer all the way. Just recorded someone and they do a reverse tom fill and it throws me every time.

 

[Joel4662]

Drummer: 8
Audience: 0

 

[JeffEstrada]

Drummer's perspective just sounds more natural. Audience perspective feels weird to me.

 

[gotet10]

Audience disconnects me from the music I feel like. Drummer's perspective all the way.

 

[DullElysium]

So this way the whole record is basically heard from the drummers ears? Practically that means the lead guitarist stands on the left side of the drummer the rhythm guitarist stands on the right side the vocalist is shouting straight at the drummers face.. Oh yeah and the drummer must be sitting on the bassist.

 

[Redline4]

I think that drummer perspective wins it all the way because the ''non-musiciens'' won't really care or won't even notice that hi-hat is on the left or right or whatever. But seriously I would like to know how many songs are from the audience perspective compared to drummer perspective.

 

[Harley Barley]

if we were doing a true audience perspective wouldn't we pan the snare to the right a bit? lol thats what i never got...

 

[JeffEstrada]

^I agree
logically, it would make sense to do it that way but mix-wise, it just doesn't sound right in a mix.

 

[DevonSteelman]

Drummers perspective for sure. Audience perspective makes more sense to me as a listener, but it just feels so wrong.

if we were doing a true audience perspective wouldn't we pan the snare to the right a bit? lol thats what i never got...

And if we were doing true drummers perspective, wouldn't the snare be panned a bit to the left?.. I mean, I just never got that either! #sarcasm :Spin:

 

[DullElysium]

But if you have a real doublebass drumset isn't the snare in the middle? So we have to imagine everyone records with a real doublebass set instead of douplepedals.

 

[Fandus]

automate the pan so people have no idea whats going on

 

[Mm1066]

automate the pan so people have no idea whats going on

Lol that's funny