i have been told that some bands intentionally mix the drums so you will hear them from the drummer's own perspective (hi-hat and snare on the left, floor tom on the right). i think i would rather hear them from an observer's perspective (i.e. the reverse). but i also think i probably don't care.
this may matter more in classical recordings, where producers presumably want to re-create the experience of being in a concert hall: violins to your left, violas and cellos to your right, etc.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 25 August 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
iirc Raising Hell by Run DMC pans "Left y'all / to the left y'all / because I rock upon the mic real def y'all" and "Right y'all / to the right y'all / because I rock upon the mix all night y'all".
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 25 August 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
would you hang a pollock upside down? no! it'd look stupid!
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 August 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
Most fish look pretty stupid upside down imo
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 August 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
the (I'm surely bullshit) liner notes to pere ubu's st arkansas claim that we hear from left to right.
― bamcquern, Monday, 25 August 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
i have been told that some bands intentionally mix the drums so you will hear them from the drummer's own perspective (hi-hat and snare on the left, floor tom on the right). i think i would rather hear them from an observer's perspective (i.e. the reverse).
I have a couple of jazz records that do this (separate different parts of the drum kit to different channels), and it's a bit disturbing to listen to them on the headphones, with a stereo set it's okay.
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 August 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link