andyhix
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I guess I'm mostly interested in getting the best possible drum sound out of this room, but I'm also interested in possibly being able to spread amps out and track 2 guitars and drums at once. Also, this isn't my basement, it's my bassist's, and as you can see it is a multipurpose room (storage, kid toys, etc). And the final hurdle is budget. There isn't much of one. I could probably buy a few sheets of 703 or something to make a cloud, or some gobos, if needed. Anyway, just to start a discussion (if anyone other than me wants to have one) I'll start with some pics:
As you can see it's a pretty odd shaped basement, with several nooks and crannies. The exterior walls are all concrete block; the one interior wall is wood panelling (I'm not sure what's behind it, but probably drywall). The gray boxes are simply rough indicators of the excessive storage shelves everywhere, as you will see in the next few pics. I should probably mention that I am totally guessing on the dimensions.
This pic is standing roughly in the bar area, looking back towards the drums and desk. Again, pretty cluttered, but it probably is helping somewhat to cut some reflections.
This shot is from the desk, looking back towards the bar/lamp collection, just to give you some further perspective.
The ceiling is all typical acoustic tile. I don't really know if this stuff does anything for acoustics as far as we are concerned, though.
And finally to preemtively answer your first question, the reason I'm not sure what exactly needs to be improved, is that we haven't had a real drummer sitting there for a while, as they are hard to come by. So, when we do have one there, we hope to already have the room as good as possible, so we can jump right into recording (ideally). In other words, I don't have the luxury of setting up to record drums, listening to the recording, moving the kit, moving sound treatment stuff, replacing drum heads, trying again, listening, (repeat ad naseum). Obviously, I realize that some of this will have to be done, but I'd like to address whatever I can up front. OK, enough rambling.
As you can see it's a pretty odd shaped basement, with several nooks and crannies. The exterior walls are all concrete block; the one interior wall is wood panelling (I'm not sure what's behind it, but probably drywall). The gray boxes are simply rough indicators of the excessive storage shelves everywhere, as you will see in the next few pics. I should probably mention that I am totally guessing on the dimensions.
This pic is standing roughly in the bar area, looking back towards the drums and desk. Again, pretty cluttered, but it probably is helping somewhat to cut some reflections.
This shot is from the desk, looking back towards the bar/lamp collection, just to give you some further perspective.
The ceiling is all typical acoustic tile. I don't really know if this stuff does anything for acoustics as far as we are concerned, though.
And finally to preemtively answer your first question, the reason I'm not sure what exactly needs to be improved, is that we haven't had a real drummer sitting there for a while, as they are hard to come by. So, when we do have one there, we hope to already have the room as good as possible, so we can jump right into recording (ideally). In other words, I don't have the luxury of setting up to record drums, listening to the recording, moving the kit, moving sound treatment stuff, replacing drum heads, trying again, listening, (repeat ad naseum). Obviously, I realize that some of this will have to be done, but I'd like to address whatever I can up front. OK, enough rambling.
will help.
