Hip-Hop Mixer Panning Help?

misterbrownstone

misterbrownstone

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When making hiphop, is better to fill out the entire stereo image? like do i take my cymbals and strings all the way to around 75% left or right? or should my longest range be around 50-60%?

please i dont want to hear:

"just listen to the song and give it what it needs"
or
"do whatever you think sound good"

id like an average of what most people use. where are the restrictions? where are the boundaries that i should not cross?
 
The only advice that we all can agree on, is to keep a good stereo balance when panning. Some people like to pan LCR and some people like to pan according to taste, and other will try to go for a live feel.

But keep Bass, Kick, Snare/Clap, center. I don't pan important elements hard (except for BGV)
 
I usually have the Lead vox, kick, snare/claps, and bass in the centre. Cymbals and hats can go anywhere but I rarely put them hard left or right. Things like strings or piano are nice to have in stereo.

A search of "panning" should help a lot.

EP
 
ok lets keep it simple then. kick, snare, clap, lead vocals, bass guitar, lead instruments should be dead center. hats, other percussion instruments like congos, guitars, triangles, horns, strings, ad libs, effects get panned slightly to the left and right. you can have them at like 25-50% away from the center of the mix. very normal. hats always sound best on the right so i would keep the hats there. but go crazy if you want.



these aren't hip hop tracks but they're great songs and popular among their genres. plus i like them. :-) just see how they went about mixing.



nelly furtado - say it right

kicks panned to the left and right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0


deadmau6 - sofi needs a ladder

vocals panned to the left and right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDndZn0YPdI
 
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