Nola
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Hey guys, so I'm at my inlaw's cabin and about to start recording.
My two choices for a room:
1. Upstairs room has 12 to 13ft ceilings and sounds reverby. Walls are all wood, but there's a brick fireplace and windows that give some reflection. Floors are all wood except for a few rugs around the living room.
2. Downstairs room is a finished "basement" (i say this because it's not totally underground, with about a foot or two of the ceiling above ground). Ceilings are lower, about 8ft, all wood walls but floor is carpet. The room is much more dead sounding. It's not totally dead, but it's not reverby.
So my question is this: which room would be best for (electric) guitar and which for vocal? I was thinking to record the guitars downstairs in the dead room and the vocals upstairs in the lively room. Is that how you'd do it? I don't have time to test every location unfortunately and need to get to work recording tomorrow, so just a general guideline on which room would be best for each. Thanks!
My two choices for a room:
1. Upstairs room has 12 to 13ft ceilings and sounds reverby. Walls are all wood, but there's a brick fireplace and windows that give some reflection. Floors are all wood except for a few rugs around the living room.
2. Downstairs room is a finished "basement" (i say this because it's not totally underground, with about a foot or two of the ceiling above ground). Ceilings are lower, about 8ft, all wood walls but floor is carpet. The room is much more dead sounding. It's not totally dead, but it's not reverby.
So my question is this: which room would be best for (electric) guitar and which for vocal? I was thinking to record the guitars downstairs in the dead room and the vocals upstairs in the lively room. Is that how you'd do it? I don't have time to test every location unfortunately and need to get to work recording tomorrow, so just a general guideline on which room would be best for each. Thanks!
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