What to do with these rooms?

[minds device]

Here are the rooms I have to work with. This is a rental property so I dont want to modify with a window or anything. I will probably be here another year so keep that in mind. What would you guys do with these rooms? And there is a budget. A small one. btw that wall that separates the nicer room from the yellow turd is 1 drywall thick. 2 walls are cement. The other 1 is not very solid either. I think the yellow room is about 11x9 and the bigger is 14x11. I will be working with 8" studio monitors. Please excuse the big ass photos.

I am using this room for the pc right now thats it

thanks for your help

 

[mixsit]

Start making some absorbers and gobos' that you can place as needed for the project at hand and take with you when you move on.

 

[minds device]

Yea some movable bass traps and gobos are on my list of to do. But which room to track and which for the control? Or just treat the white room and only use it?

 

[Ethan Winer]

For a one-man operation just use the larger room. Much more here:

Acoustics FAQ

--Ethan

 

[minds device]

Ethen I watch your vids great stuff. Thanks so much for contibuting to the wonderful world of audio and acoustics. I have a follow up for you Ethan if I may. Because I do like my one room setup for vocals and everything is RIGHT there ease of use, I am open to the idea. What I will miss with a control and live room setup is you can actually hear the results of moving your mics without recording and playing back. By having a buddy (or your wife) move the mics until you find the right spot through true referance monitors rather than guessing through cans or recording and playing back every slight mic movement.
Another added benifit of the two room is when my bass player and I are tracking together or "practicing" in the control room we can do it through the monitors and not cans with my guitar amp in the other room and him direct bass in. And what about when I get my drumset? (really soon)
Thanks again. I will be getting some of your RealTraps when I get some other priorities out of the way.

 

[Ethan Winer]

The only time I recommend two rooms is when someone records others as a commercial studio. It's tough to listen to someone else bang on a drum set for 8 hours straight. But for recording yourself on drums, I'm sure it's easier to do it all in the same room rather than running back and forth to press Record and Stop.

Also, in the old days we often had to sub-mix drums to record, say, 8 microphones onto only four tracks. But these days with DAW software you can just put each microphone onto its own track and sort of the levels and EQ later.

--Ethan