Does my audio still have room echo?

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There are no room echoes, so if you are just trying to get a dry sound, you have succeeded.
 
TalismanRich said:
There are no room echoes, so if you are just trying to get a dry sound, you have succeeded.
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what!? I can still clearly hear echo. But I dont know if it's worth having curtains in my room over not having any.

Also I wonder if it makes my sound boxy
 
NO curtain VS WITH curtain


Pls listen and judge! I need to make a decision whether I keep em or not
 
There is less 'room' with the curtains. It makes the voice more intimate.
I'd go with curtains.
 
There is NO echo. It does not sound ‘boxy’. It is pretty dead. With the curtains down, the HF rolls off even more. The distance you are from the mic works fine. The sibilance is under control. The plosives are not an issue. My space has more reflections that your and I am happy with it.

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If you clap your hands once and you hear two distinct claps, THAT is echo. Once the reflections become overlapped, it is reverberation. Either very short reverb that dies away quicky, or cathedral type that goes on for many seconds. Length of reverb is the time it takes for that single clap to decay by 60dB.

The point where one clap becomes two varies individually. Some people can detect two claps at quite tiny delays just a few milliseconds.

Your recording has no longer delays i can detect at any frequency.

We cannot hear the problem. If you can, and it annoys you, then you will need to spend serious money on expensive treatment. What you can hear and we cant probably comes from your floor and ceiling, which i bet you have not treated?
 
You might also let things run for 10 seconds or so to listen for extraneous noise (your noise floor). A silent room is your goal.
 
TalismanRich said:
You might also let things run for 10 seconds or so to listen for extraneous noise (your noise floor). A silent room is your goal.
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Always worth with any recording setup to periodically do a "silent" recording? Have mics/ instruments setup as normal and gains similarly then run for 20 seconds or so keeping as quiet as possible. Run the resultant clip through something like Right Mark Analyser ( 44.1kHz, 16 bits) You will then see any bumps that could be possible noise pickup due to induced hum from poorly sited mains leads or especially line lump PSUs!

Do another run at the same settings but unplug the mic. That will I am sure show you how good modern interfaces are? The interface is likely quieter than you can get your room.

Dave.
 
the curtains r obstructive, idk if i really want them. They have pro's and cons. Keep warmth, better sound when listening to audio as well, better for recording, but in the way when i wanna go thrtouhg, not a big deal but an obstacle non the less. I'm unsure atm. I could try working on treating the walls. I hav e 2 weeks left to return
 
What exactly do you want to treat the walls for? This is getting silly. You ask us, we tell you, you ignore it and carry on about the curtains?
It sounds fine. Unless you can focus on what it is you don't like - you won't make progress.
If you want to improve the whole thing, the next thing is to practice your diction, delivery and timbre. I listen to audiobooks while driving, and recording quality and subtle stuff doesn't matter - what does matter is that the voice remains consistent even when it is recorded days apart. There isn't much you can do with your voice - it's sort of fixed, but you can deliver it better with practice. You have trouble with the W sound, it often comes out as V, not W and the words 'what' and 'was' and need correcting. You also say lodov instead of lot of - these things will be more vital for English speaking listeners. It isn't bad - but your accent slips every now and then. That said, my language skills are pathetic in anything other than English - but it's maybe something to consider for success.

The room sounds fine - the curtain/no curtain recording shows the space works pretty well. For the spoken word, I would advise stopping spending money now. If it were me, I would send them back for the small difference they make.
 
I am starting to wonder if the chap usually lives under "A Rickety Bridge" ?!!

Dave.
 
rob aylestone said:
What exactly do you want to treat the walls for? This is getting silly. You ask us, we tell you, you ignore it and carry on about the curtains?
It sounds fine. Unless you can focus on what it is you don't like - you won't make progress.
If you want to improve the whole thing, the next thing is to practice your diction, delivery and timbre. I listen to audiobooks while driving, and recording quality and subtle stuff doesn't matter - what does matter is that the voice remains consistent even when it is recorded days apart. There isn't much you can do with your voice - it's sort of fixed, but you can deliver it better with practice. You have trouble with the W sound, it often comes out as V, not W and the words 'what' and 'was' and need correcting. You also say lodov instead of lot of - these things will be more vital for English speaking listeners. It isn't bad - but your accent slips every now and then. That said, my language skills are pathetic in anything other than English - but it's maybe something to consider for success.

The room sounds fine - the curtain/no curtain recording shows the space works pretty well. For the spoken word, I would advise stopping spending money now. If it were me, I would send them back for the small difference they make.
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do they add boxiness?

yes i listen to ur advice about vocal training
 
They just soak up more too end. Boxiness comes from parallel walks that reflect too much mid. As you get with thin foam. Your space is bigger and full of ‘things’ which reflect and refract.
 
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