Extreme panning in club music?

[loopdon]

Why is it done? I have heard it on hi-hats in two tracks i listened to lately out of interest.
one was something by andreas kremer and one a liebing mix of a sven väth track.
in both the hihats were panned to one side completely.

while this might open up space by mixing and prolly translates to mono on a club rig i still don't hear it in very many tracks and it reminds me of what was done in the beatles' days for example. it sounds shit when listening at home for sure, at least to me.

anyone care to tell me more about this, possibly naming other examples?

[stjohn]

i like these type of drastic pannig effects... once there is something to balance it with on the other side..

especially when the tracks changes from one pan setting to another, it can create some weird effects on the brain.... one i can think of is that breakbeat track on Luke SLater's Freek Funk... dont know the name, but it jumps out when ever it does it.

[loopdon]

righto. the problem is there ain't anything on the other side most of the time if at all in the tracks i mentioned. at least not in that frequency region... ?

[dirty_bass]

Bad practice if there`s no balance.
Totally pointless for most club soundsystems.

[loopdon]

Bad practice if there`s no balance.
Totally pointless for most club soundsystems.

i must re-listen then, maybe there was some kind of balance after all. just wanted to learn about the effect on a clubsystem.

thanks for clearing this up! didn't make any sense to me so i asked.

[Jay Pace]

I've never heard of any club running a stereo PA ever.

Which makes stereo effects nice for home listeners, but pointless on a rig.