Tenderness46
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Hi. This is the first time I post in this forum. I've done some home recording years ago. I always wanted to be able to get professional results, but I hardly can say I ever did, although taking into account my lack of knowledge, the fact that I was alone to do everything and the equipment and room limitations (not to mention working in the same room where my girlfriend was cooking and my young children running around), sometimes I got some half decent results.
Now, not having a place of my own where I can set up the recording studio, I rented a bedroom at my ex-girlfriend's house to do it there. Initially I tried in her massive living room, but finally I was given an empty bedroom. In the living room I recorded a song (just an acoustic guitar, straight through the piezo, and a vocal part) and found that the sound of the room was not too bad. After moving it to the bedroom, though, I get an awfully confusing bass response that makes it very unpleasant to listen to anything there, even if the volume is not loud. I haven't even tried to record there, but I can imagine that it may be hell just trying to figure out what is actually going into the hard disc drive. Also the sound of the room takes the desire away.
I know nothing about acoustics, so any advice is appreciated. My budget is limited and I do nightly gigs at a different town seven nights a week, so my availability of time is also limited. Really I don't like to fiddle about too much with the physical aspects of music recording. What I am into is putting ideas into the machine, with the best possible sound, not having to dedicate much time or effort to build things, fix things, experiment moving all the stuff around, etc.
I can say that the size of the room, although it's big enough to fit everything I need to use, may not be enough from a sound point of view. The floor is tiled, the walls are just painted with nothing on them that might prevent undesirable reflections and the shape is rectangular. I think that is a wrong starting point, but I don't know exactly what corrections would be advisable to improve the sound. I would like to, as much as possible, go for the right things at the first attempt, instead of doing trial and error for weeks or months until I get the desired results.
Is there anything simple (if possible) that I can do to correct my actual problems? Thanks everyone for reading and special thanks to the contributors! Cheers!
Now, not having a place of my own where I can set up the recording studio, I rented a bedroom at my ex-girlfriend's house to do it there. Initially I tried in her massive living room, but finally I was given an empty bedroom. In the living room I recorded a song (just an acoustic guitar, straight through the piezo, and a vocal part) and found that the sound of the room was not too bad. After moving it to the bedroom, though, I get an awfully confusing bass response that makes it very unpleasant to listen to anything there, even if the volume is not loud. I haven't even tried to record there, but I can imagine that it may be hell just trying to figure out what is actually going into the hard disc drive. Also the sound of the room takes the desire away.
I know nothing about acoustics, so any advice is appreciated. My budget is limited and I do nightly gigs at a different town seven nights a week, so my availability of time is also limited. Really I don't like to fiddle about too much with the physical aspects of music recording. What I am into is putting ideas into the machine, with the best possible sound, not having to dedicate much time or effort to build things, fix things, experiment moving all the stuff around, etc.
I can say that the size of the room, although it's big enough to fit everything I need to use, may not be enough from a sound point of view. The floor is tiled, the walls are just painted with nothing on them that might prevent undesirable reflections and the shape is rectangular. I think that is a wrong starting point, but I don't know exactly what corrections would be advisable to improve the sound. I would like to, as much as possible, go for the right things at the first attempt, instead of doing trial and error for weeks or months until I get the desired results.
Is there anything simple (if possible) that I can do to correct my actual problems? Thanks everyone for reading and special thanks to the contributors! Cheers!
