Uladine
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I want to use a bedroom for a semi-permanent tracking room. The problem is that the room sounds like ass and I can't make any permanent modifications to it. Its one of those rooms where you clap your hands and cringe at the resulting echo. This is pretty much the only room I can use as my other bedroom is where I keep my DAW and I want to keep things seperate for isolation purposes. If I can work my mom into letting me convert the closet into a little vocal booth I'll be good to go, but so far she wont let me take the damn shelf out that is totally in the way.
I have 32 12" x 12" squares of auralex studio foam at my disposal, plus a couple of pretty heavy blankets that I usually drape over mic stands. I'm trying to figure out where exactly to put this foam to make the room sound better for vocals, micing amps, acoustic guitars, and maybe taking drum samples if the neighbors dont kill me. I can't really do any permanent modifications, I'm even tacking the foam up because I can't use the included glue on the walls.
I noticed the especially ugly sound of the room after we took all the posters down to paint the room. Did posters really help that much? The walls are totally bare now and you can tell by the sound. Would canvas paintings placed in strategic areas help reduce the echo? As you can see I can't really tack blankets on the wall as I need the room to still look nice for the people who don't really understand my goal.
I've attached a crappy illustration of the room layout. Maybe someone could tell me where to place my foam, mics, and what way to point the mics and the sound source (singer, amp, etc.)
I'm pretty clueless when it comes to acoustics so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have 32 12" x 12" squares of auralex studio foam at my disposal, plus a couple of pretty heavy blankets that I usually drape over mic stands. I'm trying to figure out where exactly to put this foam to make the room sound better for vocals, micing amps, acoustic guitars, and maybe taking drum samples if the neighbors dont kill me. I can't really do any permanent modifications, I'm even tacking the foam up because I can't use the included glue on the walls.
I noticed the especially ugly sound of the room after we took all the posters down to paint the room. Did posters really help that much? The walls are totally bare now and you can tell by the sound. Would canvas paintings placed in strategic areas help reduce the echo? As you can see I can't really tack blankets on the wall as I need the room to still look nice for the people who don't really understand my goal.
I've attached a crappy illustration of the room layout. Maybe someone could tell me where to place my foam, mics, and what way to point the mics and the sound source (singer, amp, etc.)
I'm pretty clueless when it comes to acoustics so any advice would be greatly appreciated.