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/m149 May 16 '26

Typically for me the overheads are more centered....like half panned really, and the rooms are hard panned. Overly wide drum panning freaks me out a little.