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 don't do many recordings.. previously I recorded in a very open room living room. When I recorded my vocals, I had a natural reverb in the room..

Since then I've moved into my Bedroom which has a full length curtain on one wall and a combination of wardrobes around the room.. ironically when I record in that room I get a very dead sound.. which is great for vocals. My next recording is going to be made in that room.. but most of that will be DI except for vocals & my guitar.

Come early next year I'm going to have my own study.. about 12' X 15' with a bay window.. which is where I'll record most of my vocals. I'm going to have the full set up in there, which will be good to have all my music finally located in one room.

Porter
 
The compooter is in the living room, the TV is in the living room, my kids and my wife are in the living room, even the guinea pig is there and we all make beautiful music together. Well, all of us except that f#*@!..ing Guinea pig. Can't keep a beat to save it's ass.
 
mojka said:
The compooter is in the living room, the TV is in the living room, my kids and my wife are in the living room, even the guinea pig is there and we all make beautiful music together. Well, all of us except that f#*@!..ing Guinea pig. Can't keep a beat to save it's ass.
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I got the same setup, except my wife got rid of the Guinea pig about two months ago. I was glad to see him go.
 
If you need a good recipie for that Guinea Pig Just email me.:D
 
my kitchen

I built a 30 square ft booth in my kitchen where i record all my vocals. Everything else is next door in the living room
 
I have a 6' x 10' room I built inside of my garage on the side away from the house, so I get some isolation. I have all my junk in there (Books, old computer parts, junk, etc.
It's pretty crowded in there with all that stuff. I need to get rid of most of it. Anybody need some junk?
 
My control room is a room that was added on by the previous owners of the house. It was originally the back porch, though, so two of the walls are siding! The room that I do 90 percent of my tracking in the adjacent living room. It has vaulted ceilings, and sounds about thirty times better than the control room. When I'm recording myself, I just drag the mics, my cans, and my keyboard (I bought a 20 foot extension cord for my keyboard) out into the living room and go to town. This is good not only because the living room is much better acoustically, but also because I don't have to record in the same room as my noisy computer. The door that separates the control room and the living room is a sliding glass door, so that makes it very easy to view my monitor and have a fairly good idea of what's going on. It's a bitchin' set up.
 
I record in the basement in the room listed as the study. It's 12' x 11'. I haven't done any sound treatment to the room. Everything I do is line input. I didn't think I really needed to worry too much about the room at first. But, now, after reading many posts about rooms and all I'm beginning to look at seeing what I need to do to the room tom help make sure I'm getting the best out of it.

Vice
 
I record in the basement. I've taken over a 15'x15' area of the finished rec room (tile floors & wood paneling). I've got carpet on the floor and some treatment of the walls. It is not really that good sonding a room - but I try to make it work.

I've got an adjacent 4'X5' "vocal booth" which is no more than an area surrouned by window draperies and carpeting to create a fairly dead space.

All my keys are MIDI and I use V-drums and my guitars normally go direct via a POD or J-Station - so the only thing that normally goes through a mic are the vocals - which I can control reasonably well in my "vocal booth".

When I do have to mic something in the room (accoustic guitar, violin, percussion, live cymbals, etc.) - I really have to work to find the "sweet spot"
 
I'm in a 12X12 room in my basement. I laid some heavy burber carpeting and made some panels from acoustic ceiling tiles wrapped with a sand colored burlap. I mounted the 8 4X6 panels on the walls with 1/2" spacers.

Now I'm working on ways to dampen all these damn cooling fans! :cool:
 
I'm looking for a new house that will afford me a great spot to build a studio. My wife doesn't understand this, but it's one of my key decision makers.
 
My studio's in a bedroom (or two) on the third storey of our 150 year-old former guesthouse, Our walls are made of Manx slate and are about 18 inches thick, so not much sound gets out. No real problem anyway - it's a noisy neighbourhood and the neighbours one one side are weed-smoking Sabbath fans, and on the other they're a bunch of mad Liverpudlians (same as myself) whose only complaint is that we don't invite them 'round to jam!

I've got two rooms up there - one's the control room, where all the synths live, complete with disco ball lighting and oil wheel, for that trippy atmos, while the other's the "live" room (with lava lamps) where the drums and amps live (seven-piece Ludwig kit, Trace 4x10" bass cab & head, vox, fender & Watkins guitar amps). I've recorded live bass up there going through the Trace and not had complaints.

We've also got a small (10x6) room up there where the Gym lives, but we occasionally press it into use as a vocal room. Nice, tight sounds.

One of the handy things is that, due to the age of the house, there isn't a single right angle in the whole building, so none of the walls are even vaguely parallel. Result!
 
You really have no idea how weird it is that you said that. A singer I was recording absolutely shat his pants after swearing that he saw somebody moving across the mirror in the "live" room. I'd actually typed this in my original post, but removed it before I submitted the post. Spooky.
 
It's scary how your studio just keeps on expanding as time goes alone, and eats its way to the front door.....

AL
 
I record on my 28 foot sail boat. What a bitch.
-Angermeyer
 
I heard that's how Primus does a lot of their recordings (on a boat). I'm sure they probably redo stuff in their studio back on shore, though.
 
I'm out in what used to be a 2 car garage. Put in a wall between the washing machine/wife stuff which is 5/8 drywall both sides, stuffed with 2 layers of sound board and then acoustic foamed on the "studio" side. Garage door doesn't open any more, insulated, Beadex board, sound board, and lastly carpet. Other walls and ceiling are insulated/soundboard and drywall with acoustic foam on one wall (closest to my neighbors bedroom) and bass trap/foam in all the corners. Floor has 2 layers of carpet (more for the feet than anything). A 7 piece band fits in the space and we're getting some encouraging results out of PT LE/001 through a Tascam M-2600 MK II. Drummer is playing a set of Rolands, the guitars, bass, and keyboards are direct, so main source of "bleed" is from the harp player into the vocals.

The room has been re-arranged about 4 times so far, with the current set-up getting the best results.... still probably room for improvement, and I'll be the first to admit I'm on the steep end of the learning curve.
 
basement, 25x40 or so, concrete floor, concrete block walls, about 100 dump truck loads of old furniture and junk all around, just insulation in the ceiling, my coolers, a lamp, xmas lights all over the place, my crackpot, my gear, Jack (my doggie), 5-6 big bags of trash at any given time. Works for me. And if anyone needs to puke, they are welcome to do so, can't hurt a thing as long as they stay out of my little corner. he he he he he he he he

dtb
 
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