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any more tips on panning drums/hats/percussion ??
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Cosmic Tandav
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Posted : Sep 28, 2010 08:24:24
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willsanquil
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Posted : Sep 28, 2010 08:29
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to me the most impressive aspect of percussive panning is for each drum to have its own space in the mix - it creates for me a 3d and much more immersive/exciting percussive environment
the way I try to go about this with my percussion (though I need to do a lot more of it) is to make sure that each loop or part of the kit is panned in a way that is unique compared to the rest of the loops/kit - excepting one or two elements that sit dead center and act as a kind of ground/base for the other elements to dance around
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wizanda
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Posted : Sep 28, 2010 11:53
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Make it that the drum is sitting in front of you, the kit surrounds the drummer and thus the sound should be coming from each ear, as if you were there listening to it as the audience. 
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sideFXed
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Posted : Sep 28, 2010 12:37
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like others said, keep some things dead center or only slightly panned. that's the foundation. I like adsr curves on panning individual things. I set some snare fills slightly in the stereo spectrum, but in the time the sample plays it might pan back to center or slightly to the opposite direction.
it's quite crucial that I don't overdo it, as it's hard to hear the sound if it zips to fast through the stereo spectrum.
this works way better with longer, sustained sounds like crashs, snares etc.
what I also like to do is adjust the room/ambience so the tail of the reverb sits in the opposite direction to the panned percussion sounds. that gives it a bit more of a balance.
I often copy samples several times and give them individual pan settings. This works good for closed hihats so they don't stick too much in the center. I randomize or write patterns so I don't have to hear the same closed hihat panned dead center.
try different eq settings for your samples stereo channels. take some mids out of one channel and boost them a bit on the other. stuff like that.
try m/s encoding. there should be topics on here that go into detail.
there are also these neat utilities for pc:
http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst-effects-2/panning
pan-oh-rama and kitchen sync [LOVE] are really nice 
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daark
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Posted : Sep 28, 2010 13:55
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i find that in psytrance this is all about what you want to make... you can add fx cut the hell out of things. automate the panning. automate the cuttoff.reverb, phasers, bit crushers, time stretch, delay. everything works.infected make percussions with vocals. no rules on this i think...
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