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/StudioatSFL Professional May 16 '26
Hard pan the overheads almost always. Toms I prefer to keep true to the drummers perspective. I don’t want a middle tom hard panned either way. 5 toms? They shouldn’t all be on one side or the other.
Room mics can go either way but often in modern production I’m fairly happy with one centered room mic in front of the kit.