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Panning the drums

Panning the drums

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Panning the drums

Although Panning the drums may seem intuitive, there are actually two ways to do it. In this video we'll explore each of them, and you can select the one you like best for the song. There are two ways to pan the drums, from an audience viewpoint is just stand in front of the kit or from the drummer's viewpoint as he looks out at the audience. Most engineers use the audience perspective, and that's what we're used to hearing the most records. This means with the right-handed drummer the hi-hat would be panned to the right, the snare would be just off-centered to the right, the floor tom to the left, and the bass drum would be centered. (music playing) First, pan the snare slightly off-center to the right as you see it. Then pan the hi-hat to about 3 o'clock as you see it. (music playing) If the drummer has only a single rack and a floor tom they have two choices, either pan each tom at 10 and 2 o'clock or as you see them, with the rack tom at about 1 o'clock and the floor at about 9…

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