general panning guidelines

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Yea, you'd be lucky to find it tho. Sometimes you'll find those kinda samples in some new-age stuff, or some East Indian music.

No not true. late 60's through the mid 70's alot of albums were mixed like that. You pull up samples in soundforge or wav lab you can see it. bass line real heavy to the right, drums on the left. Sly Stone is a good example.

The Beatles did ALOT of that hard panning. They have songs where all the drums are hard left or right.
Of course Sir Mcartney aint a big fan of rap, so I wouldnt try a rekonizable riff.