Questions about small home recording studio

[jdchess]

Sorry for the late reply, but I did decide on a pair of monitors...Yamaha HS50M's. They seem very honest and they work really well for what I need right now. I got a great deal on them too.

Another question for everyone. I placed the desk and monitors in front of the window as GIK suggested. The mix position is about 6 feet from the window. This leaves 9' 11" behind me to the back wall and doors. Looking at the original pics at the beginning of this thread, where's the best mic placement for recording vocals? Do I need to "deaden" an area for tracking vocals? I don't really have a corner available because of the closet doors. Other options?

 

[RAMI]

Another question for everyone. I placed the desk and monitors in front of the window as GIK suggested. The mix position is about 6 feet from the window. This leaves 9' 11" behind me to the back wall and doors. Looking at the original pics at the beginning of this thread, where's the best mic placement for recording vocals? Do I need to "deaden" an area for tracking vocals? I don't really have a corner available because of the closet doors. Other options?

You wouldn't want to be in the corner anyway, so that's ok. You could experiment and record yourself in different parts of the room and listen for which sounds best. Personally, I'm almost sure you'll be fine singing right from your listening position, or at the least, I'd start there.

 

[SD88]

Hey dude

Possible to get good results?
Yup.

rectangle is good so no worries there.

That small diagonal is fine. Might even help (?) a skosh. Probably not enough to matter but...

As to the monitors? The best you can afford. But in a room this size, I don't think I'd do a sub. Probably cause you more problems than it's worth.
Bass freqs are strong as hell and will stomp your mids and highs unless you get your room well treated.

Which brings us to......
Bass traps baby! At least 4" thick.
As many as ya can basically. Either straddling the corners at a 45 degree or maybe some superchunks to the left and right of your mixing station. Which. btw, I would put facing the window, a couple of feet back from it.
Can you make some gobos to cover that window that you can take down when ya want?
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The back wall corners? Not too sure. I trapped all my wall corners and it helped alot with the tracking and the mixing.
Maybe build some stand-alone traps that you could move into position when needed.
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cheers dude.

I must dare to say after all calculations the 2 of the bass traps will be 4 inche thick one will be 2 inches and the rest of them 1 inch of thickness

 

[GIK Acoustics]

You wouldn't want to be in the corner anyway, so that's ok. You could experiment and record yourself in different parts of the room and listen for which sounds best. Personally, I'm almost sure you'll be fine singing right from your listening position, or at the least, I'd start there.

I agree.
You could do your sidewall panels on stands so you could locate them around yourself when you're recording. I would advise absorption or diffusion above the recording area. However, since the room is decently long, I would treat a secondary area in the back (maybe just one panel on each boundary) around a 'recording' position back there, and use early reflection panels or even stand up GOBOs around that area for recording. Of course, having separate panels so that you wouldn't need to move stuff back and forth from mix position would be the most comfortable.