tracking and control total 30'x10' need some setup advice

Started by badegg on 5 January 2010. 1 reply.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 13905.

The walls of this space are all sheet rock with plain old insulation on the inside of that. the ceiling is slanted from left to right (if your facing into the smaller room,from the larger room) 8' up to 9'6" I want to record(mainly) -vocals -drum kit (4 mics) -guitar -bass musical styles? anywhere from rock to jazz to soul **I would be using a mainly DAW based studio with some odd end controllers now, not all of those will be recorded at the same time as I dont have the money or the mics, but if you were to try and set up this room to best suit the prerequisites i have listed above what would they be? I was thinking that i would use the smaller room as the control room and the larger for tracking? -which room would you put your control room in? -where would you set up your computer and how you face your monitors? -where would you build a vocal booth? -acoustic treatment? thanks any help will do **No budget** **also no worry about neighbors or soundproofing**
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Basic CR layout? Desk facing the window, with your back to the door. Monitors on massive stands just behind the desk. Plug the window. Superchunks in the rear corners (on either side of the door) and front corners (on either side of the window), a cloud over the mix position, absorption behind the speakers and at the first reflection points. That's about as far as US$ 500 will take you, I reckon. There won't be enough for a vocal booth, nor for treatment in the LR. Nor for electrical, HVAC, etc. But I doubt you'll be able to track drums too well without any isolation between CR and LR. How high are the ceilings? - Stuart -