i always do drummer's perspective for clients or anytime i play conventional drumkits for someone else's record.

but for "my" own music:
i am a HUGE einsturzende neubauten fan- so all bets are are off!

what's it mean to be an "einsturzende" fan?

50 gallon oil drum panned center.
large metal oven with kick pedal panned center.
plastic water-cooler jug panned 1 o'clock.
metal sheet or street signs panned around 3 or 9 o'clock.
tank shell "bell" at 11 o'clock.
metal bunkbed frame "bell" at 4 o'clock.
rattling metal chain hard left.
railroad spike "clave" panned hard right.
feild recordings of machine or faulty water heater noises in stereo or with auto-panning effect.
power drill with self-panning stereo phaser.
etc. etc. etc.

you get the idea.

even with my normal drum kit- i once put all my toms into seprate auto-pan effects of 3 different spx90's and hit them randomly throughout the song.
i don't know if anyone would enjoy that but me- or even if it deserves the title of "music"- but man, was it alot of fun!!!

i was thinking about this, probably the main reason to do it from drummer's perspective is so that rolls down the toms go from left to right, just as we read. now if we were folks who read from right to left, say in hebrew for instance, that'd be another story.

hmmm- ineresting -but i don't know about that.
i just think there are more righties than lefties, and when you listen to music you can't help but want to airdrum along- and having the kit panned to be like how most righties have a drumkit set up just makes more sense.

it sucks for lefties- but majority rule is always a sad fact of life.

hey morze, you're in philly and play junk percussion and like einsturzende -- this means (a) we should talk music and (b) are you in a band called stendhal? have hardly heard them but i know they have junk percussion. also (c) sleepytime gorilla museum is a fucking amazing band with junk percussion.

a.) i always love talking music (as long as it's not about the Beatles).
b.) brilliant deduction! i WAS in Stendhal. the band sadly broke up last summer. personal stuff. it's a damn shame. the kind of band breakup that caused me to play Shellac's "Prayer to God" really loud ALOT!- if you catch my meaning. currently, i play in Trouble Everyday. no junk percussion- just fun rock. i d still do the junk percussion- though nowadays it just finds its way into film soundtrack stuff i do from time to time.
c.) i have heard of these guys often- i keep meaning to check them out. it always been one of those "to do" list things- but now that you have again reminded me- i shall get on it and i thank you.