Lets talk about your Recording Environment...

[AustinG]

Maybe if you're going for effect.. It seems you'd want to deaden the sound when recording... add efects later... That's why you try to make a vocal booth soundproof......

[lyrics101]

Maybe if you're going for effect.. It seems you'd want to deaden the sound when recording... add efects later... That's why you try to make a vocal booth soundproof......

It's not that I like the reverberations of the bathroom. It's that my roommate is the type of person to drop a big metal bowl halfway through an otherwise perfect take.

[AustinG]

I was speaking more of the large room vs small room for recording....

but my roomate sucks too... I'm gonna build a vocal booth over the winter...

[RunsWithBuffalo]

You dont necessarily want a dead room or your sound will be flat and lame. Some of the best acoustic recordings use 10 different mics just to capture "ambient" room noise. That being said, you dont want an overly reflective room as standing waves can develop.

Buy good headphones and trust your ears.

One caveat is recording electric guitar. I like to close mic my amp with an sm57 in the deadest possible environment.

Bass guitar im not sure cause i usually just do that directly in or with midi.

[lyrics101]

Buy good headphones and trust your ears.

Nailed it.

[eliot1171]

I would say trust your ears but i have always gotten better results in a big room.

If you aren't going to dampen the walls at all a larger room would be better, but if you do it doesn't really matter. If its too small you'll get a 'in the shower' sound and create way too much echo.

[AustinG]

I agree you can add effect by recording in a different environement, no doubt, like you said some of the best recordings were spawned from such places..

Somewhere I got the impression we were speaking about the best place to get a clean dry recording.

Here's a company that makes some sound booths;

http://www.whisperroom.com/facts.html

[lyrics101]

I would say trust your ears but i have always gotten better results in a big room.

If you aren't going to dampen the walls at all a larger room would be better, but if you do it doesn't really matter. If its too small you'll get a 'in the shower' sound and create way too much echo.

I'm flying into Omaha tomorrow.

My friend in NE has a much better recording setup than I do. Should be fun. I'll be sure to post results so this board can critique all my "unnecessary ambient shit".

[AustinG]

nice, post up when you get back, I don't think i've heard any of your recordings yet.

[eliot1171]

I would say trust your ears but i have always gotten better results in a big room.

If you aren't going to dampen the walls at all a larger room would be better, but if you do it doesn't really matter. If its too small you'll get a 'in the shower' sound and create way too much echo.

I'm flying into Omaha tomorrow.

My friend in NE has a much better recording setup than I do. Should be fun. I'll be sure to post results so this board can critique all my "unnecessary ambient shit".

You'd be surprised how many 'at home' studios that people have in Omaha and Lincoln that are pretty kick ass.

[lyrics101]

I would say trust your ears but i have always gotten better results in a big room.

If you aren't going to dampen the walls at all a larger room would be better, but if you do it doesn't really matter. If its too small you'll get a 'in the shower' sound and create way too much echo.

I'm flying into Omaha tomorrow.

My friend in NE has a much better recording setup than I do. Should be fun. I'll be sure to post results so this board can critique all my "unnecessary ambient shit".

You'd be surprised how many 'at home' studios that people have in Omaha and Lincoln that are pretty kick ass.

But of course. Nebraska's got a solid indie scene, even if that scene is largely DMB wanna-bes (and all due respect to this board when I say that, but NEs got an absurd surplus of it) and musical aspirations reaching somewhere about the level of early Blink-182.