Whats your drum pan like?

[Demonstealer]

I'm just curious to know how everyone pans their drums?

Like for example if I have the following tracks

Kick - center
Snare - center
Hi Hat - 50% left
ride - 50% left
tom 1 - 20% left
tom 2 - 10% right
tom 3 - 35% right
overheads - (stereo pre panned mixdown from Superior)
Ambience - center


This is not so much about if its drummers perspective or or audience. I'm more curious about how the toms and hats+ride get spread out by different people.

 

[greyskull]

somewhat wide

 

[::XeS::]

Isn't this too much wide? I mean, toms panned 100% L-R?And also Ride and Hats?

 

[Exocaster]

Last thing I recorded; rough mixes-

Kick/D6- center
Snare/609- center
OH L/NT5- 50% L (Note: the Glyn Johns overhead setup was used. Thus the odd panning.)
OH R/NT5- 100% R
Rack Tom 1/57- 25% L
Rack Tom 2/57- center
Floor Tom 1/57- 25% R
Floor Tom 2/57- 50% R
Mono room/RSM-4, about 20' back- center

Doom metal, all live drums. No mics on the hats and ride, no massive panning of the toms across the stereo field.

 

[LeSedna]

I guess he has 2 mono recordings panned 100 hard R/L to make them fully stereo, which makes toms panned as was really recorded.

Correct greyskull ?

 

[Morgan C]

I guess he has 2 mono recordings panned 100 hard R/L to make them fully stereo, which makes toms panned as was really recorded.

Correct greyskull ?

Dunno, some albums, like the latest Disturbed, have the tom close-mics hardpanned. I think its just weird and distracting :/


If I've got hat/ride close mics, they'll be panned 100%, cos they're really not gonna be that loud anyway.

Toms depend on how many they are, but usually starting at 20-40L and going to 60-80R.

 

[greyskull]

nope...
just hardpanned
i find that the ohs and room mics pull the toms hats and ride into the centre so i hard pan the close mics for a bit more spread

 

[Skinny Viking]

K = Center
Snare = 10% L
Hats = 20% L
Tom1 = 30% L
Tom 2 = Center
Floor = 60% R
Ride = 75% R
OH = 100% L & R

 

[jeid]

Kick Centre
Snare Centre
Tom1 40 Left
Tom2 40 Right
Hats 50 Left
OH 100 L/R
Room Centre

 

[punkrockacademyfightsong]

usually something lik this:

Kick: C
Snare: C
HH: 50L
Tom: 40L
Floor: 60R
Ride: 50R
OH: 100 L/R
Room: 75 L/R

 

[Soundlurker]

Depends but roughly:

Kick: C
Snare: C
HH: 100L
Tom1: 50L
Tom2: 20R
Floor: 70R
Ride: 100R
OH: 100 L/R

 

[Mikaël-ange]

Everyone hard pan OH here?
I always pan 60 L/R max

 

[smy1]

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...rb-how-create-realistic-3d-image-drumset.html

 

[mick thompson]

kick - c
snare - c
r-tom 1 - 30.left
r-tom 2 - centre
r-tom 3 - 30.right
f-tom 1 - 40 right
ride - 35-right
hats - 40.right
OH - Hard - L.&.R

 

[Dexter_prog]

So most people here pan drums according to the drummers perspective? I though most did it all the way round.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Oh L : 100% left
Oh R : 100% Right
Ride/china : 80 to 100% Right
tom 1: 60% left
tom 2: 30% left
tom 3: 30% right
tom 4: 60% right
kick/snare: center
Hihat :70% left

 

[Trevoire520]

I pan the toms and any cymbal close mic's so that they match their position in the overhead image. So it depends on the kit and the overhead setup I used.

 

[Trevoire520]

So most people here pan drums according to the drummers perspective? I though most did it all the way round.

Panning to the drummers perspective here too. Makes sense to me as the only people who are likely to notice are drummers who want to air drum to songs!

 

[ahjteam]

 

[Exocaster]

Everyone hard pan OH here?
I always pan 60 L/R max

Nein. I prefer Glyn Johns vs. spaced pair though, as I try to go for more natural sounding drums. You have to pan them oddly to get the imaging right, and even with the one mic hard-panned the overall spread of the kit is not as wide.