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A few years ago i bought VF160 to record my band. I just did it for fun and basically to have the recordings for reference so we wouldnt forget any of our parts. I recently decided to get more serious about recording and try to get a decent sound. I use the VF160 to record then I do all the mixing/editing with acid, soundforge, and protools. I've gotten decent with my recording skills but now I need to work on the sound of my room. For being so small (11'x15'), it has a ton of reverb even though the walls are finished, not concrete (I'm in the basement). I dont have a lot of money and I cant make any major modifications to the room. I was thinking of using rigid fiberglass for bass traps in the corners and all along where the walls meet with the ceiling. Then I am thinking just foam over all the rest of the walls. The floor is carpet and the cieling has popcorn texture on it. Will this be too dead? I mainly just record drums but we have to do vocals in here too.
 
If you have natural reverb then your room isn't too dead. If you aren't trying to record more than one or two parts at a time it sounds like you have a pretty good room to work in. A couple of sheets of rigid fiberglass or 4" thick styrene foam might come in handy (to make a quick isolation booth for vocals) By the way, do you have your recording gear in the room or outside?
 
My recorder is on a triangular shelf in the corner of the room. We use this room for jamming, tracking, and mixing. We jam all together in there but we only record one instrument at a time. With the guitar we go straight from an out on the amp into the recorder, and with the bass we just plug straight into the recorder, so the room isnt a factor for those. I just need it to sound good for drums and vocals, and occasionally an acoustic guitar but i have other places in the house I can use for that. I will attach a diagram of the "studio".
 

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apl said:
Read www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
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I spent about 2 months reading around on this forum before I actually joined and I have read all of the ethan winer stuff. I understand the basic principals of getting good acoustics, I was just wondering if I could get some advice for my specific room. Thanks to everyone for reading this. :)
 
NegadivOne said:
I spent about 2 months reading around on this forum before I actually joined and I have read all of the ethan winer stuff. I understand the basic principals of getting good acoustics, I was just wondering if I could get some advice for my specific room. Thanks to everyone for reading this. :)
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Applying those basic prinicples will give you excellent results.

Good luck!
 
apl said:
Applying those basic prinicples will give you excellent results.

Good luck!
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Thanks I will give it a try. There is only one thing i realized that concerns me, because of the closet in one corner, and the shelf in the opposite corner, I can really only put bass traps in two of the corners. Is that bad, is it even worth just doing two?
 
NegadivOne said:
Thanks I will give it a try. There is only one thing i realized that concerns me, because of the closet in one corner, and the shelf in the opposite corner, I can really only put bass traps in two of the corners. Is that bad, is it even worth just doing two?
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You can also put them in the wall-ceiling and wall-floor corners.
 
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