Acoustic Treatment - what, when, how? (Newbie)

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captshiznit

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Hi guys,

New to all of this thought i'd start by asking for a little help trying to acoustic treat my little shack room. Yes I live in England we have small spaces! :p

It's a small basement room and i've no idea where to start to try DIY acoustic treat it myself for recording etc, obviously I don't expect it perfect but i'm willing to try out some stuff if it leads to any improvment at all.

Thanks! :p

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Edit: Also if you are wondering what that door is behind my desk its like a little " storage coupboard" per say with a gas meter in it. Be better if it wasn't there more space but yeah it is, wondering if it could be used to do vocals or any such thing maybe or better to just do vocals in room itself.

Cheers.
 
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Your first step, should be to get your monitors/desk centered between the short walls of your room. The best setup sends the throw of your low end, to the longest length of any room. Center of the short walls, gives symmetry for your stereo image. Do vocals in your main (large) room, unless you have outside noises that make it necessary to isolate. I have always wondered why a silly outside noise would even be a problem for anything other than a solo artist with no background music. I have had squeaky dog toys in the actual recording room, that were removed easily. Isolation is relative to how much silence is needed between parts, in your particular situation.
 
Cap,
What sort of vocals are you doing? I built a small narration isolation booth (for me, silence is indeed golden), you can see the thread over on the "show your studio" thread.
I also posted a recording of the before and after acoustinc treatment of the room. You can hear the difference. while there is a lot of science behind where to place absorbers and reflectors...short of an expensive evaluation of your space, trial and error become your best friend.
Do you have an absorber in mind? Are you going with Auralex foam, OC703 panels or enclosed batts (like I did)? Whip up a half dozen or so, tack them to the walls and record. Listen to the recording for pings and rumbles...change/add/remove...rinse, repeat.

Let us all her what you've done...when you get it done. Oh, and your space isn't that small.
 
Hi bud, we're gonna be doing rock vocals when it comes to recording some of our own songs and putting them together, so mainly loud stuff etc. Nope no absorber in mind was just going to pick up some acoustic panels off of ebay. I'll get 2 sample recordings when I do it.
 
Hi,

To be honest, I wouldn't spend too much time or money trying to solve your problems until you know what they are. Give the room a good workout and see if you can pick what your biggest down-sides and weak points are and then post back with details. I'm sure some of the people here will have some good tips on how to sort out particular difficulties. It's usually easier to get good tips if you have more information about what you're specifically trying to fix.
 
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