bad isolation between control/live room

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i m building my home studio now, there is bad sound isolation between the control room and the live room, which means that when drums for example are played in the live room they can be heard prety loud in the control room, do you think that will be a big problem when mixing?
 
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i m building my home studio now, there is bad sound isolation between the control room and the live room, which means that when drums for example are played in the live room they can be heard prety loud in the control room, do you think that will be a big problem when mixing?
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What is screws up is your monitoring. See, there you are tracking somebody on the drums and you are listening to what you think you are recording through the monitors but you are getting that PLUS the leaked sound. And your leaked sound is colored by what frequencies get through the wall best. So your monitoring, and thus your tracking, is skewed. When you get down to mixing (which in my definitions comes AFTER you have created all the tracks) then there is nobody in the live room.
 
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it becomes a little bit like that. Since you don't have perfect isolation, you have to record samples and play them back to actually know what's going on. Not a big deal, just a little bit of extra time. If you crank the monitors and listen closely, you should be able to get close, then record a bit, listen and fine-tune

It's not so bad, just don't trust monitors + bleed
 
What they said. And add this- I don't have a conrol room at all (wish I did), so for me, the biggest problem isn't mixing. I mix in my nice treated room. Monitoring is done with cans while tracking, and yes, that can pose problems. My big problem is bleed from the control station to live mics. I can't use any piece of equipment that makes any noise. It goes right down to the littlest things, such as my watch, which I have to take off and leave in another room.
Most of what I'm tracking is acoustic instruments and voiceovers, not live rock, so all I have to do to mess up a track is drop something on the floor. And the nice engineer (me) has to breathe as if I was standing in front of the mic, because basically, I am. Oh well. You have your problems, and I have mine.-Richie
 
This may sound dumb but I got a couple of 25' headphone extension cords and I got as far away as I could from the drums (like outside) to see what they sounded like in the cans. It's not a sure fix but it beats remodeling your studio for better isolation.
 
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