WOW what a diference

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So i just moved my "studio" if you can call it that from having it all in a 25 by 35 room into having a recording booth in an 8 by 6 room. I cant even begin to tell you how much more clear crisp and professional sounding the vocals and everything for that matter sound. and the room isnt even treated..bada bap bah bahhh...IM lovin it
 
Nice one man. Your lucky to have a studio, i aint got anything. Bahh! Ayye but it really does show how important the room you record in matters doesnt it. I have had great results from a live recording in an ART studio with no treatmente and it ended up not even sounding live!! Groovy. For vocals the more dead you capture the source the better quality i have found, unless doing something like a choir in a cathedral!!
 
i wonder though its almost too bright.I dont have the ceiling treated and the mic is within like 2 feet of the ceiling. Might that be a problem? Nah i wont worry about it
 
Doesn't really make a lot of sense. Usually, you move in to a smaller room, and suddenly it's suck city.

Is your room odd-shaped or something, or are we talking typical parallel walls, ceiling, etc. ?

Perhaps your last room just totally sucked balls.
 
well see before everything i did sounded dead and really bad...now things sound bright and nice and clean....but i suspect there might be something else causing too..because i had my gain peak a lot closer to 0 during tracking and i also sang louder.But i have mixed feelings because although the tone matches professional recordings a lot more i didnt really care for the way my voice sounded....but i think that could just be because i was not singing well that day
 
also just curious chess...why would a smaller room be bad....isnt that less room for bad reverb to happen and what not?
 
thats just a general statement, if this room sounds better than your last one, then it sounds better, peroid.

although i'd probably hang something to dead the room a little. the brightness you're refering to MAY be a result of the room. just go in and clap, it the room sounds like crap (metallic usually) you'll need to hang some sheets or something.
 
My experience:
I record now everything in the same room (still one miced instrument (or whatever) at a time if possible) that I record in. It's just a huge basement. Problems with it are painted brick/concrete walls, huge furnace, my crappy carpet all over the place (walls AND floors, ha. But I covered as much as I could decently), about a 7-8 foot cieling...just wood and then cieling..no insulation or anything like that. and on top of that it's dusty.

anyway for all those reasons I thought it'd be better to make a "booth" out of my bathroom a year and a half ago. This is before I had any decent mics, just some dynamics with my delta 44 and behringer mixer. I just assumed and told myself it was better.
a month later I got enough money for the big upgrade - C1, DMP2, BX5's. Wow did it sound amazingly BAD in that little bathroom haha. I tried carpetting and read a bunch on doing homemade stuff - no remedy. The room was just TOO small and terrrible. I went back to the big room, and stuff sounded so much better it was undeniable. ha.

anyway, now I just got an AT4040, Q10 (well a while ago), and am going to the bx8's hopefully. Time to read up some REAL articles about DIY acoustic treatment. ha!

HOLLA!
 
alright yeah then i think the room is wrong and i dont know what good is (ashamked emoticon) but the big reason i moved out of the big room was because of gear noise showing up on my tracks. How to i fix this...the the problem is my computer.Can i just put a blanket over it. I've done this for a very short time and it took care of the noise problem. But would i have to worry about my computer frying?
 
is your fan that bad??
i record in the same room as my computer and don't have much of a problem, unless i'm recording something really quiet, but it's not come up much.

blanket is ok for a limited (short) time.

but seriously, try the clap thing, listen to your rooms.
 
i built my computer myself cause i hated the noise my previous machine made, i spent lots of investigation and money in it, and now when people walk into my room they sometimes ask: "where's your computer dude?",
you can hear it, but its real damn silent, but not silent enough so i can sleep while its on... i'd like to put a Resorator on my cpu, the only noise i got is the little fan on my cpu.... i love this machine !

i can highly recommand buying an Antek BQE (black quiet edition) case,
with built in power supply and real big (but pretty silent) fan on the back

what does annoy me is the square room i'm in, i definatly got some standing waves in here, got a bassboost at some places....that sucks, in overal i 'always' lack bottom end in my mixes, and when i record vocals in here, you just HEAR the room !! you hear that its bigger than a normal vocal booth and well...its a nice underground sound, but i'd like to get ABOVE it ..

i put guitar amps in the hallway, and i build a little "cage" around them,
sometimes i even put singers in the hall, just to get a different sound,
and god, i never believed it could give such a difference, but it does !

my mics hear alot more than my ears, thats for sure

too bad i'm broke as hell, can't afford any way of room treatment the next few months...and thats what i want to invest in next... building some basstraps to start with, also gives a bigger WOW effect for when people walk in here for the first time...
 
i honestly dont know the clap thing...im not sure what to listen for.Someone said metallic noises and the room has that im positive of but the frequency thing im not sure. I'd have to hear a real room..My computer sounds like a friggin lawnmower. the fans and all. Is their a liquid cool system out their?
 
I spent some time silencing.

I bought a Zalman Flower heatsink, a Zalman VGA card cooler, a fan-speed controller, a PSU (Enermax) with an adjustable fan-speed (always set on low-noise - never had a problem) and FDB equipped hard drives from Seagate.

The PC is also situated on the floor under the desk where it's less likely to be picked up by the mic.

It's pretty quiet now and doesn't show up on recordings.
It helps that my main mic is a Rode NT3 which is a hypercardiod design.
If I have the mic in the right place you can hardly hear the PC.
I often put the mic in another room if I'm recording somebody else :)
 
thare are some liquid cooled systems out thare, but i for one know nothing about them.

just spend the next couple of days listening to the sound of every room you walk into.

how's it sound on your voice?
whats it sound like when you clap?

a lot of times when i walk into a room for the first time and i'm trying to be subtle i'll snap my fingers, people hear it, but it's usually not enough to get a look.

pay real attention to how everywhare you go sounds for a week, you'll probably learn a lot.

P.S. a crappy room will sound like crap, it's kinda an innate thing.
actually, most rooms fall under the crap classification.
 
try going to an old church near you in the day when noone's really thare to disturb and yell, clap, whatever.
just for referance, so you can hear a better (but not dead) sounding space.

just make one loud noise, count the seconds till it goes away, get one dirty look, then leave. :D
 
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