Room in the closet

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How do i build a room in my closet for pretty much anything, vocals, guitar, violin etc?? im very confused with if the sound in there is deadened or too reflective... some help pleaaaaase
 
You can't build a room in a closet. It's a closet. Record outside of the closet...in a room.
 
ya but theres these videos about making a booth in a closet on youtube, so are they just retarded or wat?
 
That's a loaded question. Have you bothered to research at all? Type OC703 or acoustic treatment into the search box. TONS of info. INSANE amounts of info, even.

Besides, without knowing what your room dimensions are or even what it looks like, we can't tell you anything. It's like saying: "I have a car. What kind of engine should I put in it?"
 
RobbieD, there are a lot of articles on the internet about room acoustics. Having seen your topic about buying a $1000 microphone, I suggest reading this two page article for a quick overview of the topic you would do well to understand:
How to Record Vocals Part One | DV Magazine
How to Record Vocals Part Two | DV Magazine

In order of importance for making a good-sounding vocal recording:
1) A good singer!
2) The correct acoustic environment, which includes the mic’s pop shield and mic placment.
3) The type of microphone.
4) The type of microphone preamp.
5) The specification of the recording system or audio interface (assuming some form of digital recording)

You will get a better sound out of a larger room than a small closet, so use the room you currently have your computer and musical instruments in, using suggestions from the above article about how to treat the area around the microphone.

My personal opinion is that you will probably get a better sound if you spent something like $250 on a microphone (eg. Rode NT1a), $250 on a mic preamp (if your audio interface doesn't have a suitable mic input, and the rest on acoustic treatment.
 
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this is my room, please help me out and tell me what it needs?
 
RobbieD said:
this is my room, please help me out and tell me what it needs?
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We can see part of 3 walls and the floor.

Your room needs to have problem sounds kept under control as best you can - and you have both the sound of the room for both tracking and mixing to consider. The proper way to go about this would be to measure and calculate the room's current sound characteristics so that you know what the problems are and thus what to treat. Search for room modes to read about how that is done.

Have a look at the photos in the topic Acoustic panels... a photo essay... over on John Sayers' forum as you will probably find you need to install broadband traps and some absorption on the ceiling (called clouds) and walls at the reflection points from your mixing position, and possibly extra if the sound of the room needs it. The laminate floor is ideal as it is.

Your room is not large and the bed seems to dominate the floor space, forcing everything else to the edges of the room. Depending on how serious you are about writing, recording and mixing your songs - which the cost of all the equipment suggests you are pretty serious - you might want to reconsider the need for such a large bed and the positioning of your mixing position and the mic for vocals and acoustic guitar.

Your OP asked about a room for recording vocals and acoustic instruments. You want to control reflected sounds so that the room is lively enough without problems and nor is is entirely dead sounding (anechoic).

It is your room. Decide what you want to do and folk here can help point you in the right direction.
 
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