I tried to treat my very small home studio; I’m now looking for advice to make it better as I think I’ve over done it.

[RFR]

What should I contribute in your humble opinion? I posted asking for advice and then read the replies. Do you really hang around here and judge people if they don’t reply?

Replying is usually the polite thing to do.

 

[Clockworkcreep]

Replying is usually the polite thing to do.

I’m not doubting that. Honestly the studio went on the back burner for a while. I did make some changes by taking some of the dampening away. I’ll have to record to see how it sounds now. I absolutely appreciate any and all the advice I’ve gotten and didn’t intend to be impolite in any way. I did go off a little because I didn’t appreciate the way some users were saying some negative stuff about my ability to read and stuff. Anyway, if my replies were impolite in that instance then I apologize. I took the moving blankets off of the ceiling to give the recordings a little more “air”. I’m hoping that improves on the ambience. The recordings were pretty dead sounding to me as I had it. Also, my budget is pretty much zero so I must work with what I already have. I can’t get any rockwool or build corner traps and stuff.

 

[Supercreep]

Do you really hang around here and judge people if they don’t reply?

Oh totally. Welcome to HR! Always here for a fellow creep.

 

[Clockworkcreep]

Oh totally. Welcome to HR! Always here for a fellow creep.

It actually motivated me to get back in there and try and improve things.

 

[Bstrom]

I think your last comment is for most of us the only way. We do not have access to the software to do it properly by actual planning and predicting. I think most of us are reactive. We do the sensible stuff, then listen and fix what we don't like, and scrap things that don't need doing - and if it is your second or more project, you also know where to put effort. Some acoustic treatment is stupidly expensive to buy in advance.

That's what I did and am getting very respectable results - as long as I keep heavy blankets over the drum kit and move the unused acoustic instruments to another room. That stuff just resonantes no matter what the room is like.
I've got two rock wool baffles I can create a 'booth' with for recording and have heavy curtains for the windows. Works!

 

[rob aylestone]

In my first studio, in the early 80s, the acoustics were rotten and the drums sounded awful. We discovered they actually sounded better with the drums heads all covered by a blanket. Sounded great, looked silly. If we had had the internet then, we’d have been laughed out of existence, but all people heard was the sound.

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Covered Drums: