Room ambience and cpu noise problems

[brra]

Hi everybody,
i use a neumann M147 with a Trident s20 mic pre and i record into the Motu 896HD.
I`ve just made my studio in another room wich is a pretty empty(i don`t have a lot of furniture in there). Guess what? Sound terrible. The mic pick up every noise(outside,fan and hd noise), even though i putted my dual g5 in the closet!
But the worst thing is a nasty room reverb(because is empty, i guess!) that make sound my vocal "ive"and boxy.
I have 3 primay targets:
1-Get rid of room ambience.
2-Get rid of the computer,fan and outside noise
3-Get rid of that dull-boxy sound

What should i do?

I don`t have a lot of recording experience but i`ve read a lot of mag and i come up with some possible resolutions to my problems:

1-Should i put absorbion pannel everywere? This will help to "kill" the room reverb?
2-A carpet can also help?
3-Maybe if i work close to the mic(10 cm?) i`ll get rid of the room ambience?
4-A low cut filter could help to deal with the Hd and computer fan noise problem?
5-Should i record the vox with the pre`s gain very high or maybe i should keep the gain little lover to avoid to record unwanted sound?

I`m open to any suggestion/tip and tricks and/or feedback . Please someone help me.

Thanxx.

 

[Son of Mixerman]

Isolate the computer and build some bass traps to control the room's natural characteristics. The traps designs for doing it yourself are at Ethans site http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html or you can purchase prefabbed one's at http://www.realtraps.com/ for about $160 a 2X4 section.


SoMm

 

[gordone]

You should have thought about this before spending the thousands of $s on the Neumann/Trident/Motu. The sound of your room is one of the most important aspects of getting a good sound (next to the performer/instrument, imho) All the money you just spent will give you a VERY CLEAR representation of what your room sounds like, which you're finding out isn't very good.
Experience also goes a long way, sorry you had to find out the hard way that just throwing money at gear will not suddenly make your recordings sound professional.

 

[GABritton]

How close are you to the mic normally? What pattern? Maybe put a blanket on the other side of the mic from you about 2-3 feet away...This might help "close" it in a little...
I'd keep kind of close, since you are having problems w/ ambient noise. This way you can turn down the gain a little bit and mabybe that will help a TINY bit. You might have to put some 703 panels in front of the closet door to help w/ computer noise if it's that bad...

Hope my half ass suggestions help

 

[Halion]

http://www.nexustek.nl/

Silent CPU Fan: around 40 bucks
Silent Power Supply: around 50 bucks
HD shockmounts: around 15 bucks

That's around 100 bucks on upgrades to your PC, and I guarantee you, you will have at most, half the noise. If you don't have any other fans in your computer, your all done. I have all of these products and they are great. Only thing, my video card also has a fan, a noisy one. It's really the only I can still clearly hear.

That, and a shitload of absorbtion material in your room should do the trick.