Hi all,
I am recording my own songs at home and am somewhat of a beginning in audio engineering. I am starting to record vocals for a song and I'm wondering if the room I'm recording in sounds bad. Currently I don't have any room treatment, but I'm thinking maybe the room is still ok. It's not a square room. It's a rectangular room and I am recording vocals at one end, facing the other end. I'm also thinking because the ceiling is not perfectly flat, there are a couple open doorways to other rooms, and there are those shelves in the walls that it might create enough diffusion to avoid unwanted "boxy" reflections. To me, the dry vocal recording doesn't sound bad. You can hear the natural room reverb, but my ear isn't trained enough to know if this will end up sounding bad in a finished mix. I want the songs to sound really polished and professional.
What do you guys think? Do I need to treat the room? Any specific recommendations? Do you need to hear it in the mix with the other instruments to better say?
Edit: welp can't post any links or attach a sound file directly apparently so thanks for nothing I guess. Dunno why every forum is so hard on new comers. My post either gets deleted or is so restricted that I can't ask for help. Great way to entice new people to join the community...
I am recording my own songs at home and am somewhat of a beginning in audio engineering. I am starting to record vocals for a song and I'm wondering if the room I'm recording in sounds bad. Currently I don't have any room treatment, but I'm thinking maybe the room is still ok. It's not a square room. It's a rectangular room and I am recording vocals at one end, facing the other end. I'm also thinking because the ceiling is not perfectly flat, there are a couple open doorways to other rooms, and there are those shelves in the walls that it might create enough diffusion to avoid unwanted "boxy" reflections. To me, the dry vocal recording doesn't sound bad. You can hear the natural room reverb, but my ear isn't trained enough to know if this will end up sounding bad in a finished mix. I want the songs to sound really polished and professional.
What do you guys think? Do I need to treat the room? Any specific recommendations? Do you need to hear it in the mix with the other instruments to better say?
Edit: welp can't post any links or attach a sound file directly apparently so thanks for nothing I guess. Dunno why every forum is so hard on new comers. My post either gets deleted or is so restricted that I can't ask for help. Great way to entice new people to join the community...