Choosing between two rooms

[Spelling Bee]

I have a warehouse/office at my disposal for a few weeks. One of the office rooms is attached to the warehouse and has a glass window seperating the two. The dimensions of the warehouse are 24' wide x 55' long x 20' tall. Floor is concrete, walls are drywall, ceiling is unfinished with insulation exposed. The office room is 12' wide x 14' long x 8' tall. Tile floor, drywall walls, hung ceiling with tiles. Im wondering which room I should use to track in, taking into consideration that the other will be used to monitor the session but not necesarilly to mix in. Mixing will be done at my home. I have the budget to build some frames with 703 in them. What would recommend I do in this situation? Thanks for you time. SB.

 

[chugheshc]

The big room for tracking, my vote. (!jealous!)
But wow, that's going to soak up some serious work/money to
treat the room to the point where the reverb won't kill you, unless that
sound is what you are looking for. I'm not sure it's worth the investment
for a couple of weeks.
Anyhow, I'd treat the ceiling and one of the long walls
first. Maybe you can get some used office cubicle panels to throw up along the wall, that's a usable, cheap (possibly) portable, non-work intensive way
to get some treatment in there.
good luck with that...
C.

 

[mshilarious]

Big room. In fact it's so big you won't have to worry too much about the panels, so build some gobos so you can deploy them wherever you need Since the ceiling has exposed insulation, further treatment is not really necessary, and any reverb you get off the walls with be relatively quiet and probably desirable.

 

[Spelling Bee]

Thanks for the input. The gobos seemed like a logical choice for me from the beginning. I think Ill place them around the source to somewhat isolate it from transferring all the sound into the room which will surely come back as reverb and rumble. Really, the space is too large to do any serious treatment to. Ill do some experimenting and see what results I get. Ive never recorded in such a large room so it will be a great learning experience to see how it alters the sound. Hopefully it will be for the better. If anyone else out there has been in a similar situation or room, please, chime in and tell me what you learned so I have a reference point to jump and experiment from. Thanks guys. SB.