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I play the drums, bass, and a little guitar.  I never thought about it, but I ALWAYS mix the drums as if on the throne behind a right-handed drum set (hi-hat usually hard left thru floortom hard right, snare and kick in the middle).  I never thought about the "audience" perspective, which is probably how left-handed drummers mix.  <br><br>With guitars, I usually have any rhythm parts near the middle, but any soloing is usually hard right or left.  If there are guitar or vocal harmonies, I usually put different harmony parts at different ends of the spectrum to sound as if one is surrounded by the harmonies.<br><br>Fascinating thread.<br><br>VCF

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Don't know why but I usually mix the main drum pieces in a "10.10 clock" position and the small pieces (like bells, little percussion and so on) on extreme left and right. Anyway your question is very interesting, I never thought about "perspectives"... I'm a guitar-player and I often play bass and keyboards on my recording... for drums I call a couple of my friends or I use (manually or programming) a drum machine.<br><br>Ciao

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you can clearly hear which side the instruments are mixed to on this album:

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