Mixing snares & claps

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hey fp i was wondering about how you guys are mixing your snares and claps on your mixers. I use FL Studio and i tend to have to pan my snare and claps to the left and right a little bit sometimes to try to get it more toward the center sometimes its never exactly in the center. I was wondering if producers use center module on the stereo separation on the mixer to perfectly center their snares and claps? I know I have one on the FL Studio mixer if anyone knows what i'm talking about and could respond would be greatly appreciated!
 
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StanleySteamer said:
hey fp i was wondering about how you guys are mixing your snares and claps on your mixers. I use FL Studio and i tend to have to pan my snare and claps to the left and right a little bit sometimes to try to get it more toward the center sometimes its never exactly in the center. I was wondering if producers use center module on the stereo separation on the mixer to perfectly center their snares and claps? I know I have one on the FL Studio mixer if anyone knows what i'm talking about and could respond would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't really pan my snares/claps, when I'm mixing them I put on my spectrum analyzer to look at the most used frequencies/frequencies I want to brighten the sound.

So for my snare I'll take out the frequencies I want in my clap and vice versa.
On top of that, I like to BARELY shift my claps slightly to hit before my snares so the transient comes through then the snare hits and usually sounds nice.
 
I don't put snares dead center, but the easiest way would just be to convert it to mono.
 
That and eq usually do it for me. I usually keep them dead center with the kick. Everything is positined as if I were sitting behind a drum set
 
you're over thinking it.. there's no formula .. just as long as it sounds nice..
 
This is also something I don't think about that much. I don't feel that panning a snare 5% left or right is going to matter. I focus on the quality of the sounds and the sonic landscape and panning positions come second to that. Cheers.
 
SwagProductionz said:
you're over thinking it.. there's no formula .. just as long as it sounds nice..
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I totally agree wit SwagProductionz. Just do what's best for the material your currently working on, one technique might work for one project and sound terrible on another. Let your ears be the judge of how the snare should be panned to work well with the other instruments for that particular song. Same for eq, compressor, reverb etc.
 
I typically just stack a few of them together and start pulling frequencies out of each one until it sounds good to me. It really depends on what I'm working on.

I typically stereo widen my snares just to give them a bit more life and room.
 
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