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You should be able to pan hard left/right and still have the kick and snare dead-on-balls centered. It takes me at most a couple minutes getting the balance correct (maybe more the very first time)
If you are getting one side with more snare, look at your room, the sound may be bouncing off of something nearby. I've had to move the whole drumset a couple feet away from walls. If I were in a bigger room, I might try to setup so any reflections occur equally on both sides.
Hope that helps. BTW double check that you are using matched pairs with equal amounts of gain applied. I've made that mistake a couple times.
Lastly, "aiming" isn't as important in getting things centered. I often have the mics pointing towards toms, or in one case almost sideways towards the wall. If the distances are equal, it should be centered.
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