Dry room/Wet room

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I was wondering how much having a dry dampened room contributes to recording. Will it make my instruments like acoustic guitar sound more clear and defined because the sound isn't boucing around everywhere? I was also wondering something, I just baught the ART dual MP tube preamp. Is it normal to get a little more noise in your line when you really drive the tubes almost to peaking level?? Thankyou.

Adam.
 
The benefit of a dead ie iso booth is that if you don't have a good sounding, large, live room, then you don't have to deal with a bad sounding, small, live room. By the way, make sure you have a really nice stereo reverb unit (I use the Lexicon PCM 91) if you are mainly doing recordings in iso booths because they will suck the life out if everthing. I record drums and acoustic guitars in my living room to get the natural millisecond delays. Also, I'll add different delays to simulate depth. The only actual artficial reverb I add is an overall reverb to all instruments and vocals which simulate everything being in the same room.
 
I stood in the shower of my basement bathroom to record the vocals for one of my songs. It doesn't get much wetter than that.
 
I have a pair of TubPacs from ART. I have the same noise problem you're experiencing. I use one to compress a bass guitar, but I get a decent amount of noise with a gain level that gets me the highest peaks sporadically in the red zone of the tube.
I'm kinda surprised, but maybe that's what you get with a 200$ tube pre-amp?
I'm not totally happy about this either.
I wonder if anyone else has the same problems?
PH
 
I DON'T KNOW HOW REALISTIC OR PRACTICAL THIS IS IN MOST "REAL WORLD" APLICATIONS, BUT THE BEST PLACE I HAVE CONCLUDED TO RECORD VOCALS AND DRUMS IS IN A HOUSE THATS UNDER CONSTRUCTION,DRYWALL INSTALLED, WITH ONE COAT OF TAPE. SOUNDS MONSTOROUS
 
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