Seems to me that there's been a recent shift of heavy music that has the hi hat panned near center. Am I imagining this? Obviously it's not every cd, but it seems like it's getting more and more common to have that puppy in the middle.
Hi hat panning trend
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jesterroot4
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haha i'v been thinkin this exact same thing the last month or so, i still make an effort to pan mine to the left tho, although theres something strange about it i like.
not a clue what
not a clue what
GeertSamuel
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Yeah it happens more and more..
I like it to have panned right (50% right), so have it as a crowd hears it..but actually only when the ride is also nicely on the left side.
I like it to have panned right (50% right), so have it as a crowd hears it..but actually only when the ride is also nicely on the left side.
jesterroot4
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when panning drums i realy realy imagen its right infront of me, and pan everthing exactly to were i or the drummer has their kit layed out from were they are sitting.
depending on how the overheads and hi hats were miced, it tends to be around 50% left but sometimes i have to push it to 70-80 to get it sounding in place, same with toms and other spot mics.
i never pan my highest tom further than 20%-25% left either as any further out sounds unrealistic unless theres loads of them lol but i spose thats just obvious...lol
depending on how the overheads and hi hats were miced, it tends to be around 50% left but sometimes i have to push it to 70-80 to get it sounding in place, same with toms and other spot mics.
i never pan my highest tom further than 20%-25% left either as any further out sounds unrealistic unless theres loads of them lol but i spose thats just obvious...lol
Torniojaws
They call me Juha
Air drumming is much more fun when the hihat is panned left 
I usually pan it around 15 - 20 % left, so it's quite centered. If it's further away, it makes the kit sound unbalanced during heavy hihat parts.
I usually pan it around 15 - 20 % left, so it's quite centered. If it's further away, it makes the kit sound unbalanced during heavy hihat parts.
abyssofdreams
knows what you think.
the hats should be panned near the snare, not too far away.
what I find more awkward is a snare that is not panned dead center, though to be honest, that would be a more realistic drum recreation across the field...
but it's impossible to play with a snare dead center, so...
what I find more awkward is a snare that is not panned dead center, though to be honest, that would be a more realistic drum recreation across the field...
but it's impossible to play with a snare dead center, so...
depends where you're standing. I like to think of it as if the listener is in front of the kick, looking directly at the snare drum.
I always hard pan hat. I'll let the oveheads take care of the rest of the imaging. It actually drives me insane when its more towards the middle...
El_Gato
I love this gain
Agree. Mostly when using triggers or even replacer in the rest of the drums. I also pan china hard right.
Ermz
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I like panned hats. Whenever I hear a centered hat something doesn't sound right to me about it. It tends to be so dominant and obnoxious that I don't want it in the forefront anymore than it has to be.
Yeah, I mostly use the HH mic for stereo image and sparkle... in most drum tracks I've recorded and/or mixed, there's a lot of hat in the OH mics, but it usually tends to be closer to the center than I prefer. I use the hat mic to reinforce the high-end sizzle and pull the sound of the hat out to the side a bit... like bshuker said, just outside the highest tom, and this usually requires a hard pan. I always pan audience perspective.
Zack Uidl
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i always pan drums using drummer perspective.... c'mon, who listens to music and imagines themselves watching the band in an audience. nobody, that's who... people want to imagine they are performing the music... by singing along, "playing" air-guitar/bass, and air drumming. and since right handed people outnumber lefties by a significant margin, drummer's perspective... with toms L-R (highest to lowest), hats left... is the way to go to satisfy the greatest majority of fans' closet rock-star fantasies.
for songs that are used in videos where the drummer is shown performing from audience perspective, it's easy enough to invert the L & R channels for use on that vid.
Melodeath
Moonbow
I don't use a hat mic. The hats fall in the field where my spaced pair (overheads) places them. i.e. mostly left.
Soundlurker
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+1 on drummer perspective and being annoyed by centered hihats. In fact, I hate it when there's so much bleed in the snare track that the hihat turns out in the center.
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