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i must be killing folks ears with my tracks since i always pan my hihats on the left. not just one set either, if i've got 4 or 5 hihat samples in a tracks they will always go on the left. i do this cause i play drums and i try to pan percussion sounds like they would be on a right handed drumkit, so hihats are panned left, hi toms are center or slightly left, and low tom and ride cymbals are panned right.

maybe i should rethink my panning

I pan mine to the right usually, mostly to mimic an actual drum kit.

Ahh!!

This was happening to me just yesterday! I couldn't figure out why everything sounded so lob-sided.

I thought it was my synth (it was a really buzzy saw wave with some serious distortion on the high end) but I guess its normal haha.

The whole leftbody-rightbrain rightbody-leftbrain correlation means your left ear is more fine tuned for music, whereas your right ear is better used to lean into a conversation with, etc.

Kind've unrelated but fun fact!

Interesting stuff. Must suck for the left handed people who listen to dance music though with all the rightward panning

Heya,
I am left handed and I pan hi hats to the right side to emulate a kit (this is just something I have been doing for ages) and both of my ears sound balanced when it comes to high frequencies. I also tend to do builds tat have any panning in them going from left to right... I dunno it just feels like the right way to go, perhaps its got something to do with reading from left to right? I wonder if cultures that read from right to left prefer drops to pan right to left haha

skwiggo wrote:i must be killing folks ears with my tracks since i always pan my hihats on the left. not just one set either, if i've got 4 or 5 hihat samples in a tracks they will always go on the left. i do this cause i play drums and i try to pan percussion sounds like they would be on a right handed drumkit, so hihats are panned left, hi toms are center or slightly left, and low tom and ride cymbals are panned right.

maybe i should rethink my panning

Never been able to understand this mentality in dance music. So arbitrary.

this doesn't really happen to me or at least I haven't noticed it :/

I'm right handed, but I do everything with my left ear. DJing. monitoring, even talking on the damn phone lol

nowaysj wrote:

skwiggo wrote:i must be killing folks ears with my tracks since i always pan my hihats on the left. not just one set either, if i've got 4 or 5 hihat samples in a tracks they will always go on the left. i do this cause i play drums and i try to pan percussion sounds like they would be on a right handed drumkit, so hihats are panned left, hi toms are center or slightly left, and low tom and ride cymbals are panned right.

maybe i should rethink my panning

Never been able to understand this mentality in dance music. So arbitrary.

and backwards lol... cuz if a right handed kit's front were facing the listener, hats would be on the listener's RIGHT and ride/floor tom would be on their LEFT.

Strange, I always preferred the left. Hats and clicks and generally anything with real syncopation goes on the left. Things like snares (if I pan them) and incidentals on the right. Not really a conscious thing just a habit

just panning a single thing on the right sounds disgusting. when i pan, i think of a number line, from left to right, if there is something panned to the right, there has to be something on the left to "begin" it, if i were to pan the master track just for the hell of it, it would go on the left, the right would just sound disgusting, idk its weird, and note i am right handed. and right footed.

RandoRando wrote:just panning a single thing on the right sounds disgusting. when i pan, i think of a number line, from left to right, if there is something panned to the right, there has to be something on the left to "begin" it, if i were to pan the master track just for the hell of it, it would go on the left, the right would just sound disgusting, idk its weird, and note i am right handed. and right footed.

opposite for me.. im left handed but right footed (and i kick very awefully, so i may be left footed fo' realz)

anyone experiences the opposite relationship

lol these are some funny comments.. i just like balance in a mix.

^ thought about that but even with balance i feel there is a strong side to a mix.. maybe its just my shitty ears.

I hate you for posting this. I sort of noticed it but just though my right ear was going deaf or something. Now that I know this all the highs seem even more on the left than they used to, mindfuckery

pretty sure it came from rock music , giving you the drummers perspective with the high hat on your right your snare in the middle, and your kick slightly to the left or center...

i forgot about that natural placement they used to talk about in school..

guess im not a rock guy at all :S

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