my situation

[newvintage69]

- I'm trying to build a home studio in my room.
- the room has no special acoustic qualities
- it's just an average bedroom
- so I'm thinking it would be best if i just ran my electric instruments straight into my recorder ( Tascam 2488 mkII) but it sounds so dead that way

Q: how can i liven and warm the sound up? should i use a pre-amp?
Q: how can i warm up the tone on the things that aren't electric? Drums? Vocals? Acoustic Guitar? mandolin?

- i currently own two sm57's and one beta 58 vocal mic
- i plan to amass some more mics ( a few condensers, a bass drum mic, and a couple more dynamics)
- THANK YOU
- DANKE SHÖN!

 

[daveblue222]

it doesnt really matter if your room has no acoustic qualities, in fact most studios are made to get rid of reverb and echoes. take for instance if your recording your guitar amp, it would be ideal to mic it up with an sm57 than add fx such as reverb, echo, delay, and compression after in cubase or whatever program you may be using.

if however you are recording acoustic based stuff and you wanted more naturual and live sounding recordings it would obviously be better to record somewhere where the acoustics are better, using condenser mics, stereo micing. however this is not essential as you could still record how i explained earlier.


hope this may help somewhat

 

[Daisy]

Q: how can i liven and warm the sound up? should i use a pre-amp?
Q: how can i warm up the tone on the things that aren't electric? Drums? Vocals? Acoustic Guitar? mandolin?

A: Track it that way. And if an audible signal is important to you, then yes, you should use a preamp.

A: Track them that way. Use good-sounding sources, and track them using good technique. That goes for whatever you might be tracking.