Classically in the dawn of HiFi, it was all about emulating the audience experience listening to an orchestra and later bands. How things were set up on stage was how it was panned from the audience perspective. As a general rule that's how I mix too. Looking at a standard drum kit from the front, hats on the right, kick in the middle, ride to the left. As things evolved it went all over the place. A classic trick you hear all the time is a big tom run using a huge kit they would pan the toms one way or the other like Phil Collins did all the time. You would hear four or more toms clearly going around the world from one side to the other. Nobody ever heard that in the audience listening to a concert 40-50 years ago. Things like that were done in the studio to try to develop an identifiable sound for one artist.

Now, unless it's a live concert recording, it's all studio production stuff so it's whatever works for you. I like your mix btw, sounds great to me.

Bob

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