parallel wall question

[jimistone]

if you have a square room (vocal booth) and you put bass traps in the corners and cover the walls with studio foam, what problems would the parellel was still cause?

[Beathoven]

nothing. But the vocals will sound dead as hell.

Beathoven

[frederic]

Originally posted by jimistone
if you have a square room (vocal booth) and you put bass traps in the corners and cover the walls with studio foam, what problems would the parellel was still cause?

Beathoven is correct, if the foam is thick enough.

Though, this would be my preference because then I have a pure, dry vocal to work with for auto correction as necessary. In the past I've run a special "give the gift of song" where customers for a pre fix rate can come in, record 8-10 songs drawing upon my vast midi file library (about 2G). Often these folks need a little "adjustment" along the way, but thats cool. If there are reverb tails on the vocal tracks, well, the reverb gets auto corrected as well

I prefer dead-dry for vocals.

Acoustical instruments however, I prefer to record in warm rooms with lots of hardwood around. In these cases, wood is your friend.

In fact, I prefer to record instruments like acoustic guitar in large rooms that have oak flooring over other woods. Violins in rooms that have mahogany floors.

Just preference.

[jimistone]

so....if you have parallel walls and you cover them with foam you eliminate your parallel wall problem....but them room is totally dead. thats okay with me. can't you place some things that reflect sound in the foamed out room, like old doors or what ever and kind of fine tune your reverb?

[ausrock]

jimi,

I'm sure that on the SAE free info site, where all John Sayers tutorials are, there was a design for an absober that could be hinged open to create a reflective area............something like this could be just what you need.

[John Sayers]

It was Left Bank that used them Ausrock - check this out

http://www.locall.aunz.com/~johnsay/...-diffusors.pdf

They look like this:

http://www.locall.aunz.com/~johnsay/...s/update_6.htm

cheers
john