Another Acoustics Request

[hrwmusic]

I am sick of how uninspiring my room is, I can feel how negative the acoustics are having on my sound and I finally just want to push myself into fixing it.

I have two rooms for recording, one walk in closet, and one, that I sleep in.
I am willing to move really anything around, and buy anything (although i love diy). Im a serious musician, and if im going to record on my own I desperately need to improve my set up.

**Here are some pictures of my current set up.

If any one has any Ideas or would like to help my tackle this I would beforever thankful. Id buy a ton of foam and bass traps but i feel like i dont know enough about acoustic to just know where to put anything. Thanks so much.

**Here are some recordings of just acoustic guitar and my vox - (www.myspace.com/harrisonwebermusic - or - Purevolume.com/harrisonweber), *recorded w/ mxl v67g on fast track pro*

thats all id want other than light percussion, and very mellow bass. Im planning on getting new moniters too...I have the standard dell speakers (i know it's horrible) right now...sigh.

Thanks!
***********My room's dimensions from above: https://img59.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myroomgb5.png

Room1-1:https://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics001qn7.jpg
Room1-2:https://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics002vd5.jpg
Room1-3:https://img97.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics003ht5.jpg
Room2-1:https://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics004jr7.jpg
Room2-2:https://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics005ay1.jpg
Room2-3:https://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomacoustics006yg4.jpg

 

[Micter]

Get rid of that Teddy Bear!

 

[Dani Pace]

At the risk of sounding like your mother... Start by cleaning your room, not that it looks dirty, just too cluttered. Get rid of anything that viberates or rattles, these noises will find their way onto your recordings. Metal bookshelves are NOT your friend when it comes to home recording. Some better speakers will help, those stock Dells aren't even cloce to good enough to hear what you are mixing, at least set them clocer to "ear level" untill you can get some better ones. A bedroom isn't the best place for a home studio but you have to make the most of what you have. Try to arrainge things so that you have the most working space and go from there. Keep the teddy bear, every studio needs a mascot. One more thing, no home studio is complete without a lava lamp, (or so I've been told by many on this forum.)

 

[gullfo]

maybe do something like this...

create a absorder/resonator wall to reduce smooth response, trap bass and reduce flutter echo.... assuming your dimensions are correct....

 

[seismetr0n]

man, thats an awesome picture

 

[Innovations]

Gullfo's picture is attractive, but I think a bit too ambitious for somebody still looking to upgrade from the stock dell speakers.

There are a couple of good points to it though, get your desk centered on the long axis of the room. Also turning one room into a well done recording room rather than trying to record in a bedroom.

But it is clear that both of those rooms are reverb hell.

So order a bale (two foot thick stack of two-by-four foot panels unfaced 703 fiberglass, You won't be able to buy less than full bales. Use some of it to build four four-inch-thick corner traps. Put two in the upper corners behind the speakers, and two in the upper corners on the opposite wall. You may need to put the one across the horizontal diagonal at the door corner rather than the vertical one. That leaves enough for four two-inch-thick absorbers. I would suspend one above the firstreflection point above the mixing position as a 'cloud' and two more on the first reflection points to the mixing position on the side walls. The last I would either put in the middle of the back wall or further back on one of the side doors depending on what helps best with slap echoes.