Live room treatment

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I've heard loads about the necessity of investing everything you can in bass traps for the control room, but how about the live room? Are they as big an imperative investment or are flutter echoes a greater concern there?

I've got a pretty lively sounding room with no discernible flutters or weird pings and I'm just wondering how I should go about checking what treatment needs to be done to it if any. By that I mean is there any particular analytical software etc recommended for the live room as opposed to the control room?
 
So I take it you're in a two room setup?

I would guess if it's a regular home studio bedroom esque setup treatment in every room would be important including bass traps in the live room. Assuming drums will be tracked there, cabs will be mic'd there, choirs will be singing there, etc. you'll want to take care of all that.

I think something like REW would work for either room.

I'm not positive though. Maybe someone more experienced will chime in soon :P
 
It'll be 3 rooms when I'm done. I've got the control room on the west side of the basement, a 5 x 7 x 7 storage room I'll be turning into a dead room in the middle of the basement and beyond the stairs on the east side of the basement is the live room. It's a big 30 x 8 x 20 (roughly...) space. No vaulted ceilings or anything but it sounds pretty good and yes, drums and other lively things will be tracked there.

I suppose the question I'm asking is once I've used the software and gotten a readout of the room, what do I do from there? Kill peaks and troughs much the same as I would with the control room?
 
cytokinesis said:
It'll be 3 rooms when I'm done. I've got the control room on the west side of the basement, a 5 x 7 x 7 storage room
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Are those the dimensions of your "control room"? Man, that is small. Are you sure you don't want to just use the big room for everything? 5X7 won't sound good, especially for a room where what you hear is REALLY important.
 
Nosir, the storage room will be the dead room, the bigger room is the live room and my control room is roughly 12 x 8 x 20
 
No worries! Just curious about any advice that may be out there in terms of treating the room while keeping it lively
 
Diffusers are important in live room. It can naturally spread the reverberations made from instruments to be recorded particularly drums, guitar cabinets, etc. However for control rooms, especially small, I would personally kept it as dry/dead as possible so more absorption materials are needed particularly to treat the bass, mid and high.
 
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