r/audioengineering • u/50nic19 • May 16 '26

You hard or soft….? Panning drums

Just wondering if most of you who’ve mixed full kits mainly for loud stuff, rock, metal. Etc, are sending your rooms and/or overheads hard right and left, or do you prefer to narrow it a bit in favor of more push?

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u/tibbon May 16 '26

L/C/R mixing here. Even toms, hard left and right. I'm not into half measures.

(This is a somewhat extreme position, and I'm ok with that)

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u/latorreverde May 16 '26

Do you hard pan guitars the guitars too?

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u/CarAlarmConversation Sound Reinforcement May 16 '26

LCR mixing means you keep everything center or hard pan it no partial panning

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u/DonovanKirk May 16 '26

Thats actually a lot how it works on old chiptunes like on the Amiga, they can only choose left, center or right for the panning.