Studiodesign - Small Room

Hello, first im from Germany, so my English is not the best. A friend told me, that this is the best forum about Studio Design. My room 3,40m wide, 4,70 long and 2,50 high.Always, when i record the voice of our singer, you can hear the room in the recording. The same, when i record my guitar. Could someone please help me? Thanks a lot!

You need to treat your room. Trapping is first. Trap the vertical corners where you can and alos the wall/ceiling corners. Move your mix position to the center of the wall. the corner is a bad idea and you will have severe imaging problems. Place a 'cloud' trap over the mix position between the operator and speakers. Absorption panels on the side walls for early reflections and the rear wall heavily. Use a thick rug. You can get some help with placement from my First Reflection Calculator herehttp://www.jhbrandt.net/pubs.html. good luck. Cheers, John

ok, i made a new design:Is this ok? If this is ok, i will make design for the recording part. Bye, Jula

i would get those cabinets on the back wall and away from your ears. besides the reflections hitting you they're likely to resonate and cause other problems. on the back wall you could then put mobile absorbers in front of them while mixing.

hi, i hope, that i understand you. Do you mean the white cabinets?

yes

O.k.: i'll hope that this design is ok:Is this o.k.?

much better

thanks, but now, i have another problem, I wanna record some vocals and acustics guitars. But ervery thing in the same room. I don't wanna have a killing (vocal) booth like 1x1m :D How could I change the design to have also a good sound for vocal recordings?

make sure you layout the treatments so you get proper bass control and don't make it dead. so trap the corners (including the ceiling-wall corners) and i like to put loosely spaced slats over them to keep some high frequency in the room. if there is any way to get those cabinets out of the room and put somewhere else, it will help avoid things like buzzing as bits rattle about, and of course add more room... here's a couple of corner and super chunk absorbers faced with a set of slats sized per a primitive root sequence of p=11 (or you could just use random sizes etc). stack these in the corners all around. note that each slat in the group object has the dimensions of it. simply cut some lumber (MDF, plywood, planks etc) into strips. since these aren't actually Helmholtz resonators, you don't need to worry about sealing the edges etc. you can build the strips vertical or horizontal or diagonal as your aesthetics desire. the flat ones can be used on the ceiling as well.

ok, but if i realized this design, could i also record in this room?

the idea would be to create a good balance between have the room frequency response and reverberation tight enough for mixing and enough life in the room to record. that said, in cases where you need more reflective surfaces, you could make some movable panels to (say) surround a guitar or flip them (assuming you made one side reflective and the other absorptive :) ) for a vocalist. etc.

Brilliant! Glen. Jula, Do as Glen is suggesting. I was going to tell you the exact same thing. Yes, you can record in this room too. With the movable panels you can arrange things how you like for recording and then put them back in place when mixing. Cheers, John