Home Recording Poll

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What part of your home have you recently recorded?

  • Kitchen

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Den

    Votes: 6 3.6%

  • Master bath

    Votes: 5 3.0%

  • Breakfast nook

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Living room

    Votes: 28 16.7%

  • Master bedroom

    Votes: 25 14.9%

  • Guest bedroom

    Votes: 38 22.6%

  • Garage

    Votes: 13 7.7%

  • Basement

    Votes: 51 30.4%
  • Total voters
    168
Looks like alot of peeps are stuck in the basement. I personally found that when my equipment was set up in the basement I didn't spend as much time with it. I'm sure it's just attitude but I like it much better above ground :D
 
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the question or the answers. The question was, "What parts of your home have you recorded lately?" To me, this is an entirely different question from "Where is your studio gear located?"

If one is a home recordist and is doing all their recording solely in the same room as their gear, they are ignoring a major part of their gear list. I did a recording in a standard 2-bedroom apartment once where I had the recording rack set up in the dining room along with keys, with the bass and the drums in a bedroom, vocals in the kitchen, guitars in the living room, and some re-amped reverb in the bathroom.

Not only does one take advantage of the diferent acoustics, but walls make great gobos :).

All you need is a day for yourself (spouse or parents out for the day) and a Tupperware container full of a few 50' mic cables and 25' headphone extensions.

G.
 
basement.

not treated enough; also, hollow walls suck.

pretty decent size room, but its getting kinda packed.

happy with sound? nah. i use a lot of dynamics to make up for it ;)
 
You missed one...

Hotel room in downtown hell...;)

Everything I do right now is direct, no mics, so the room doesn't matter...
 
I recorded in the master bedroom.

Mama wanted to kill me when she found out! :eek:
























For what it's worth, I think people gave serious answers to a not-so-serious poll.... :rolleyes:
 
I know where you are coming from Rokket. My wife wasn't too happy with me using the kitchen as a drum room. :)
 
I'm in my own bedroom, I do everything there. I would set up the closet (approx. 4X10) as some sort of either control room or booth, but I sleep in it since the drums take up so much room in the bedroom.
 
I use the garage but every now and the the bathroom believe it or not. :)
 
In my last place I used the shower cubicle open onto the bathroom (as in where the bath is as opposed to where the bog/can/dunny/shitter/dunderbox/porcelain/throne/'gator access port is) for some sax & vocals. Nice bit of verb from the tiles.
I now have a wall of glass on one side of the spare room that I screen with v/heavy drapes for a dead room & leave exposed for a bit of early refection (probably visuals of me & my guitar). I have to avoid washing day as the washing machine's rhythm is too disco for my songs.
 
rayc said:
In my last place I used the shower cubicle open onto the bathroom (as in where the bath is as opposed to where the bog/can/dunny/shitter/dunderbox/porcelain/throne/'gator access port is) for some sax & vocals. Nice bit of verb from the tiles.
I now have a wall of glass on one side of the spare room that I screen with v/heavy drapes for a dead room & leave exposed for a bit of early refection (probably visuals of me & my guitar). I have to avoid washing day as the washing machine's rhythm is too disco for my songs.
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In the past I've placed the Marshall amp/speakers inside the bathtub also.





To give it a good scrub! Got to get that dirt behind the ears you little stack you.
 
Basement Rat

I record in my basement and have recently started to apply some more serious although jerri-rigged treatments. I have recently hung 100 plus square feet of carpet from the exposed ceiling joists (sp?) creating two rooms. One room is 80 percent walled with carpet and I use that for my control room which sounds ok...Im missing some frequencies, and am thinking about hanging some reflective surfaces to bring some life back.
When I win the lottery Im sending my parents away and taking out the floor above me to create the ultimate recording chamber, either that or buy a church in out downtown slums. Hey a guy can dream can't he?
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I can't believe you didn't offer "bathroom" as an option. It's porcelain and tile walls and floor generate a natural reverb that is probably found at the end of more 50' and 100' home recording microphone cables than any other room in the house. Stairwells run a close second for the same reverberating reason.

G.
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Porcelain???? TILE?!?!?!?!?! Damn... mine is entirely wood and is straight out the back door about 20 yards or so.

:) ;)
 
I checked "Living Room" but it's actually a converted dining room. Was I happy with the results? Yes, particularly after I installed some acoustic treatment. Happy enough to get the cd mastered and pressed, anyway. Could it be better? You bet! But I reckon that'll always be the case...

Cheers
 
Hmmm...this gives me some ideas to try different rooms. I'm so dang lazy though, moving gear would really be a pain! haha.

I do most of my recording in my office (extra bedroom). Can't wait to move and create a real room for a studio!
 
Woww, all these posts of: livingroom, kitchen, diningroom, master bedroom... either you people live alone or have very understanding spouses... I have neither :rolleyes:

Luckily (enough) the basement is large and comfortable.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I can't believe you didn't offer "bathroom" as an option. It's porcelain and tile walls and floor generate a natural reverb that is probably found at the end of more 50' and 100' home recording microphone cables than any other room in the house. Stairwells run a close second for the same reverberating reason.

G.
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Absolutely, where else would one record a guitar amp :confused:

A funny story about that. a few years ago, my wife and I were working opposite shifts, so I was taking advantage of it to get some tracks laid down while she was at work and not there to nag me.

I had my 50 watt JCM800 and a 4x12 in the large shower stall we had there with a 57 up close and a LDC, don't remember which one, backed off the amp about 2 feet. She came home from work early and came in throught the back door, so I had no idea she was in the house. She decides to hit the can and "read a magazine", so she goes in and flips on the fart fan, which makes enough noise that she didn't hear the hiss from the amp, which was cranked up pretty hot, and takes a seat.

So I put on the cans after taking a break, didn't notice the fan noise in the cans and proceded to blast out power chords. Needles to say, she was a bit "startled" when the amp blasted her off the crapper :D

She was none too happy for the next few days :(
 
gtrman_66 said:
Absolutely, where else would one record a guitar amp :confused:

A funny story about that. a few years ago, my wife and I were working opposite shifts, so I was taking advantage of it to get some tracks laid down while she was at work and not there to nag me.

I had my 50 watt JCM800 and a 4x12 in the large shower stall we had there with a 57 up close and a LDC, don't remember which one, backed off the amp about 2 feet. She came home from work early and came in throught the back door, so I had no idea she was in the house. She decides to hit the can and "read a magazine", so she goes in and flips on the fart fan, which makes enough noise that she didn't hear the hiss from the amp, which was cranked up pretty hot, and takes a seat.

So I put on the cans after taking a break, didn't notice the fan noise in the cans and proceded to blast out power chords. Needles to say, she was a bit "startled" when the amp blasted her off the crapper :D

She was none too happy for the next few days :(
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I just spit coffee through my nose.
 
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