my immortal cover - need some advice.

[alecmcmahon]

I think your biggest problem is the (none-existant) room treatment though. You could try other things like EQ, compressing, mic placement, but reflections remain in there, you can't take them out unless you retrack.

On a side note, reflections come from walls and bounce back into the mic. If you put the mic very near to a wall, hardly any reflections from that wall will be able to get into the mic, and reflections from the other walls will have to travel further to hit the mic (and thus be less prominent). This is a work-round though, and it's not perfect, but it might help. Try it.

yeh, i kinda had her sit in a corner, and the mic was almost in the center of the room.

any advice on what to do exactly to treat this room ?

not JUST for vocals , but as well as guitar / bass amps and stuff.

 

[Halion]

Well, bass frequencies are really hard to stop with acoustical foam. However, most people DI the bassguitar signal, because a clean signal is wanted most of the time anyway.

Electrical guitar has some lower tones that are normally not that present in the human voice, however, most foam will do just fine. If you want superb quality, get the big pointy foam. I think most would do though.

Just stick the foam to the walls pad by pad. Not the entire wall has to be treated, just some here and some there. The more the better ofcourse. Try some on the sealing aswell. The wall directly behind the mic does not really have to be treated, IF you are only going to use cardioride mic paterns. If you use omni/figure 8, you might want to treat that wall aswell though.