Panning drums in electronic music...

Not really, basicly there is one rule if you want to press on vinyl don't pan the kick drum.
I just use the panpot on the mixer mostly for toms and shit like that, it can become really spacious. Also percussion sounds like star chimes are good panned.
A good trick to get a more spacious sound is to slighly pan certain parts, like cabbasalines or hats, just maybe 10% to the left or right.

i second that keep the bass centered. effects or stabs are good for some pan action.

Like old jazz tunes. ^

Besides keeping the bass or kick drums centered, I don't pan any drum/perc sound more than 15%, usually it's under 10%. I always think of a live drummer too and try to create that "image", as if the listener were to be in a room with said drummer in my tracks.

There are of course no absolutes and everything depends on its context (unless you're gonna cut vinyl or have other technical limits) so, if it works for your track, it works.

if you want to pan so it has the sound stage of an accoustic drumkit, you should remember that the person with the widest perspective of the drums is the drummer.... cause they're right in the middle of the kit. Nobody else is, and so no-one else gets anything like the stereo effect they get.

Is it correct that in clubs everything allways is played mono?

Will nicely panned tracks allways sound good when you go back to mono?

Worth reading: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct00/a … reomix.htm

@ Cosmo: No. In fact, depending on the phase cancellation that happens when you switch to mono, some elements might almost disappear from a mix. I've heard of big shot hit producer/mixers being in a cafe or whatever with a PA and hearing their track played (after being mono-summed) and having the drums, or pads or what have you gone from the mix.

http://www.audiocourses.com/article1664.html

ok. so much to the topic "don't believe everything you hear" :-)

Interesting links Communicator. Thanks

Mono drums rulez