Once I recorded a drum kit with alot of toms, and they were played in big rolls up and down. We didn't have enough channels at the time to record each individual tom, but when we heard a big drum fill on the toms, we automated the panning such that when the drummer hit the highest tom, the tom mics were panned hard left, and when the drummer hit the next tom, the panning was slightly more right, and so on. The drum fills sounded nice and big that way, for what it's worth.