HiHat left or right?

Re: HiHat left or right?

Snare - center
Kick - center
Hi hat - center
Crashes don't benefit at all from being anything but center IMHO

sometimes I even like mono toms... rides are great mono too, they can be panned a bit but that all depends on where the other instruments are and how dense the mix is.

Ambience, reverbs and overheads are all stereo and you want as wide as possible here.
 
Re: HiHat left or right?

zenmindbeginner said:
Ambience, reverbs and overheads are all stereo and you want as wide as possible here.
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Doesn't this defeat the purpose of mixing your drumkit in mono?
Correct me if I'm wrong but if your overheads and roommics are hard panned it widens your mix
anyway and pushes the ride, hihat, etc. off center.

The only thing that would make sense to me is to keem them stereochannels in the center and
create pre-fader-sends for my stereo fx aux channels (reverb, hall, whatever).

Am I wrong?
 
Re: HiHat left or right?

BurningShrine said:
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of mixing your drumkit in mono?
Correct me if I'm wrong but if your overheads and roommics are hard panned it widens your mix
anyway and pushes the ride, hihat, etc. off center.

The only thing that would make sense to me is to keem them stereochannels in the center and
create pre-fader-sends for my stereo fx aux channels (reverb, hall, whatever).

Am I wrong?
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Not at all, but I think I was talking about dealing with individual stereo drum tracks in a multi-track session.

I'm not talking about mixing down to a mono track just to simply sum stereo drum tracks to mono.

I mainly deal with drum samples for drums and they are almost always in stereo format. I'm talking about just clicking the "sum to mono" button on stereo: snare, kick, hi hat, crash and ride cymbal tracks

When recording an actual drum set the tracks are already mono and you just pan them up the middle. I see more people working with drum samples these days than an actual recording of a physical drumset.

You're totally right though.
 
Re: HiHat left or right?

I get it.

Yeah, programming drums (or using samples) is a lot easier than recording a whole drumkit. (and cheaper)
We've reached at a point where virtual instruments sound amazing. Most people do not even notice a difference.
Whenever I'm dealing with stereo hihat, etc. i bounce them to mono and pan them afterwards.
I guess thats what you where trying to say.
Panning 15 stereo tracks in ProTools is annoying ;o)
 
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