If you're a homereccer, where in home do you record?

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In what room do you record?

  • Bedroom (with lots of fabric)

    Votes: 27 24.3%

  • Bedroom (with lots of hard, reflective surfaces)

    Votes: 16 14.4%

  • Bathroom

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Basement (dead sounding)

    Votes: 24 21.6%

  • Basement (live sounding)

    Votes: 13 11.7%

  • other. Please specify in post

    Votes: 31 27.9%
  • Total voters
    111
I have a room in my house dedicated to the home studio. All 4 walls are foamed up. Sound is totally dead. Everything is direct except for the vocals. Hence, the whole room is basically a vocal chamber. :)
 
I've got a small house in the garden dedicated to
the studio. It's a real old house made of thick stones
so not much sound escapes. I call it the rockhouse...
 
I moved some walls, making the hallway and bedroom smaller and built a studio.
 
Put me down as "Other", Speedy

I have a couple of diagrams here;
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=52629

The studio is in my attic. I designed my house 9 years ago and made sure that attic access was a full staircase, not a pulldown. I had the builder frame the roof for skylights, put full size windows on the gable ends instead of vents and made sure the roof pitch could accommodate a reasonable ceiling height.
Five years ago I finished the side in the diagrams, which included installation of the skylights, a closet (not shown) and a 3-foot recess in the wall in front of the mixing desk (also not shown).
This past year I framed out, wired, and insulated the other side, which is about the same size (roughly 13'x20'). I put in a bathroom (with shower) to keep people from tracking thru my house every time they need to take a leak.
This weekend the drywall guys are coming (that I don't do). When the new side is done, I'll probably move the drums in there (the wife thinks her stuff's going in there, heh, heh). I put some access panels in both rooms so I should be able to run a snake behind the walls. Should be done by summer's end.
 
I'd love to have more Auralex installed to minimize the nasty reflections in my small "office", but my wife thinks it's "ugly", and has put the kaibash on that one. So I talked her into getting really nice, expensive velvet curtains. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Little does she know they work great as sound absorbers! See guys...it's all in the appearance.;)
 
Living room. Bedroom was superior in my former apartment but now I have little choice. I live in NYC in a 1 BR apartment. 12 foot ceilings blow and slap back echo effect from exposed brick has its charms but can be a tad annoying. Obligatory traffic noises add to the 'ambience". :)
 
"I like the Idea of having lots of different levels... One step up to the control area, and a step down to the guitar area, another step down to the live floor, and the vocal booth is about 6 steps up, on the side of a wall....."

Vox- when I read that, I thought of the Cramer episode from Sienfeld and cracked up!!! (you have to see it or, oh well) So, you're a levels guy ey?!
 
I record in my living room. It's a decent size room with hardwood floors and plaster(?) walls. There is a tv, couch, and chair in there for sound proofing:D I also have a small room right off the living room that I use for guitar amps and things like that. Also, there is another small room next to the amp room that is perfect for vocals. I don't have much soundproofing except for the occasional blanket but everything sounds great. The living room is great for a live drum sound.
 
Most of my vocal recording is just for practice, and those are done in my living room with
low sensitivity dynamic or condenser microphones. For anything important, recorded on my
C1 microphone, the upstairs master bedroom seems to work well enough as it's much quieter.
Hate using the walk-in closet BTW, too claustrophobic, and too much low end frequency build-up.

Chris
 
Mine is in the basement, at the rear of the theatre room where my hot tub used to be. (I put it outside).

I walled it up and trated it with studio foam every inch, except the floor which got carpet and 4 layers of thick pad. the theatre area is a little more on the live side with connections on the wall to my preamp rack. So it is also a tracking area that is also an LCD theatre with Digital sound.
 
Shockwave said:
"I like the Idea of having lots of different levels... One step up to the control area, and a step down to the guitar area, another step down to the live floor, and the vocal booth is about 6 steps up, on the side of a wall....."

Vox- when I read that, I thought of the Cramer episode from Sienfeld and cracked up!!! (you have to see it or, oh well) So, you're a levels guy ey?!
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I never watched Seinfeld.... But I get so many people comparing me to characters...

My wallet always has an inch thich stack of receipts and bank slips in the area where money is supposed to go... My mom is always bugging me about it, calling it a "Costanza" wallet....

She says there was an episode about it...


Joe
 
I am using a Laptop, so: Bathroom, bedroom, driveway, attic, church, in the car....

:cool:
 
Got the spare bedroom thing going on, much like Gidge above..... lots of furniture and clothing (usually, to my wife's consternation, unwashed and scattered). I've tried to record vocals in there, but computer noise is such that I need to start using the closet as a vocal booth.

Fab
 
Living Room

Thats why I use a dynamic mic for vox - minimizes background noise (which there usually is a lot of). Go direct for bass and guitars using a Digitech RP200.

I will be moving into a dedicated space in a couple of months which will be a big improvement.
 
I monitor and record anything direct in my master bedroom. For guitars I use the carpeted walk-in closet which is quite dead. For vocals I use the bathroom that is parallel to the closet. The walls and doors are thick, allowing me to crank my amps reasonably without disturbing the rest of the house and outside noise is of little concern when the doors are closed..

I really like my house, but my wife thinks we got screwed. She still doesn't understand that there is no such thing as a perfect contractor and that when it comes to custom house building, you have to realize mistakes will be made and hope they will be minor. She will have quite a struggle on her hands if she ever acts on her promises to move.

Cy
 
Bedroom but.......

I have two bedrooms with a snake running through the wall.
I crave the killer underground basement though..:):)



F.S.
 
im a homerecording mercenary. i've recorded eveywhere you can think of, in my parents house, in my friends converted garage, my apartment.
 
I record in my attic. The low celing is sometimes a pain when recording drums, but I like the room.
 
I think if I move to another bigger place, I'd like to make a basement studio. With a bathroom with tiles as a vocal booth maybe. And a storage room with wooden walls for guitar recording... yeah!

Or just in a big treated farmshed. High ceiling, acoustical panels, 20' x 30' control room.... :cool:
 
I want another loft like I had before I got Married. It had 14' Cielings and was 4000 sq ft.
 
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