A room in my room

[RobbieD]

ok wow la i didnt ask you if i have a good voice or if im better than barbara i asked how to make a good room... and get a good dry vocal track, cuz usually the ones i make now are nasally... so you say more in the middle... and if foam isnt good for the room, what material do i use? fiberglass panels??

 

[miroslav]

... and get a good dry vocal track, cuz usually the ones i make now are nasally...

I'm just saying that while treating a room is rarely a bad thing...in your case, it may not the magic the fixes your vocal sound and you shouldn't assume that it's all about the room (or about having a small, dead booth).

See...a dry/wet vocal refers to the ambiance, so taming some reflections in your room would treat that.
But when you say "nasally"...that's not the room, that's your voice and/or your singing style.
Also, the microphone you use can go a long way to fixing or contributing to a nasally sounding vocal (a lot more than the room).

You might consider something like this over a small, dead booth: http://www.realtraps.com/p_pvb.htm
It's like two small bass traps on a stand that you can move anywhere.

You'll still have to work on the "nasally" problem, though.

 

[Capriccio]

I've never been in a situation where I heard a room before and after bass traps.

This YouTube video demonstrates it quite well. The commentary is in Slovak so just skip forward to 3'30" and listen to the same music clips played in the room without traps and then with. Just watch and listen.

i asked how to make a good room... and get a good dry vocal track, cuz usually the ones i make now are nasally... so you say more in the middle... and if foam isnt good for the room, what material do i use? fiberglass panels??

Yes, fiberglass panels. Here's a quick and rough guide, a 6 minute YouTube video, How to make a Bass Trap Acoustic Panel (Tutorial). A good topic showing how someone made theirs in on Gearslutz: How I built my bass traps....

Start with the 4 corners, from floor to ceiling. There are lots of examples over on Gearslutz in the Studio building / acoustics section. I would go and look out a few for you but it's nearly 4 am here and I really must go to bed. You will come across two different looking corner traps. If you have the money and want to do a better job, you will see triangular traps, called superchunks. The simpler and cheaper method is just to put a trap panel at 45° across each corner, with the triangle behind it unfilled. The latter are not quite as effective but are considered to be better value for money.

 

[RobbieD]

Lets say i have an amp for vocals and i like the sound that comes out of that amp, instead of fixing the room, and all that cant i jsut use the amp

 

[miroslav]

Lets say i have an amp for vocals and i like the sound that comes out of that amp, instead of fixing the room, and all that cant i jsut use the amp

Hey...stick a mic in front of the amp and record it if you want to roll that way, but you have to sing into a mic that's plugged into an amp, then you need to mic the amp to get the sound into your recording device.
Seams like a convoluted way to go....

 

[tdee]

How did you came up with this idea? LOL just curious to ask.

 

[Capriccio]

Robbie, what you mostly get for advice is what has been researched, tested, proven to work and is in the textbooks and is what the professional acousticians advise.

On the other hand, if something works for you, like singing through an amp and recording that with a mic to get the sound you like, you are in company with the many famous musicians that have made distinctive sounding songs by following their intuition, not the textbooks.

 

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[Chili]

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