Solution to cymbal panning difficulties: will it work?

[roland rat]

Hello again. I’m getting there. I will shut up soon. This is still all about running tracks out from SD3 dry for a third party engineer.

So to get round what seems to be an inherent cymbal panning problem in SD3, I have (a) created new individual mixer channels for my crash cyms, (b) panned them all according to preference, and (c) soloed and exported them all to a stereo wav as a dry pseudo-overhead file. On playback it sounds fine to me, but can anyone with experience of mixing drums see a problem that I’ve missed?

I’m planning to send separate mono wavs of all the crashes too, just in case. I left the hats and ride in OH dyn etc along with the drums, although I have run out a spot mike mono wav for the ride to allow control.

Cheers Rat.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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Sounds good to me. If you’re exporting with bleeds, you may want to adjust the relative volumes of the cymbals in each drum to reinforce your preferred panning. (Although that depends on how detailed you need to get and for the most part I find it’s not really necessary or worth the effort.)

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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