gotused2000 wrote:highend-Or, a lot of the early stereo records would do stuff like hard-pan the drums L or R, so you could always just use the other side which is drum free.
nice.
yeah remember that public enemy song where chuck d volcal are on the right and flava flav was on the left ? 
a lot of bealtes and Jimi Hendrix stuff has that extreme panning fx as well. stuff like the the whole drum kit on oneside, and guitars on the other. acording to interviews I read this was done with alot of early old school stuff because 2 channel(left and right) stereo just came out and the engineers were experimenting with how to mix it. now in recent times we have pop standards like kick, snare, bass, main vocals are pretty much panned in the center. there is a bunch of tricky phase tricks with mixers that have matrix buttons that will cancel out the center channel, thus removing bass, drums and vox. learn about it/ it try, its how they put beats and accapellas on white label bootleg singles released for dj's