one room studio

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me and my friend plan on turning a bedroom into a recording studio this winter and since it is only one room we dont have a seperate place for the console, computer ect.my question is. Is it ok to leave the control equipment in the room your recording or should it be put somewhere else


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If you have the option for a 2nd room to use as a control room, then use it.

Otherwise, you can do everything in one room. But it's important to put up acoustic treatment...bass traps, diffusers, absorbers, etc.

It's a little more tricky to set it up appropriately for both tracking and mixing.

Ideally (for mixing) you'll want to put some 4" thick bass traps in the corners. Maye some diffusers and/or absorbers on the rear wall. You'll also want absorbers on the left and right walls where you'll be mixing and more behind the monitors on the front wall.

I'm not an acoustic expert but you can read an article written by one here:
http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

And also post questions here:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=20

Also, if your computer is noisy you may want to invest in some extension cables and get it out of the room. You'll want to eliminate as much noise as possible.

And for tracking purposes, you may want to get a set of Auralex foam and put it up on the walls.

Room treatment will probably be your best investment and it costs less than most recording gear. :)
 
Agreed on treatment. Also, I would figure a big thing, as mentioned, is the noise of the computer... Hell, the only gear in my studio that makes noise is the ADAT tape decks, and they are very quiet when rolling... but since I only have one room myself, I occasionally hear the decks whirring in the background when I solo a track... and a desktop is far noisier. So, look into that as well.
 
My advice: Go slow and tackle one problem at a time. You'll save a lot of money.

Stay away from foam products. Use fiberglass trapping.
 
Dito on staying away from foam. Semi-rigid insulation is far cheaper and can have good results. Simple things like curtains on the walls can be useful and dirt cheap.
 
I spent a load treating my room and I think bass trapping is extremely important but you can make recordings without treatment. I think you could do it in one room with just a computer, a decent audio interface and a handful of mics. Bedrooms are small. I think your biggest problem will be the room sound, so I might suggest starting with as much tight micing as possible.

If your goal is to make demos to get gigs or to just have some fun, you should be in great shape. If you have your eye on picking up a grammy based on this opus, I would think you would need something larger than a bedroom to record in and you would also need to get serious about acoustic treatment.
 
You could pick up a sound pressure level meter for pretty cheap and use the test tones to check what frequencies are being effected. You'll need to know how flat a reponse your monitors/speakers have to do this, but it's an option to see how much treatment you'll need for the range of music you're recording.
 
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