Key posts: Ideas on turning my basement/garage into a live room.
Substantial posts by Armans, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 10 of 20 posts are listed.
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Armans, 20 January 2018Hi there. I am new on this forum and am looking to build a non-commercial recording studio in our new home in the south of Spain . I play the acoustic guitar and sing so…
Armans, 26 January 2018Hi and thank you. I understand that a live room and control room are different but I was under the impression that more space is usually better and since I only need to…
Gregwor, 26 January 2018Hi Armans, Studio45 is right that 95% of what you want to know for YOUR space is written somewhere on this site. Sadly, it is hard to find a lot of what you're looking…
Gregwor, 28 January 2018They split up their space into two rooms because control rooms have very different characteristics (frequency response and RT60 and often RFZ design) compared to a…
Armans, 19 February 2018Thanks. Somebody telling me how I should design my studio is not what I was looking for just a basic idea on how to use the space to get the best results. Or an overall…
Gregwor, 20 February 2018That's up to you to decide. What you need to realize is that tonally, a good control room will have as close to a flat frequency response as possible. Futhermore, it has…
Soundman2020, 20 February 2018The thing, a control room must have totally neutral acoustic response: not live, not dead, not reverberant, not muffled, ... not ANYTHING! It must just not be there at…
Armans, 20 February 2018This is precisely my incentive for wanting to keep the room as a whole and you even say it is better. All the great studios I have recorded in and liked the sound of had…
Soundman2020, 21 February 2018Not really, no. Only if you use variable acoustic treatment to change over between the two acoustic signatures. If one end of the room is not neutral, then the entire…
Armans, 21 February 2018Ok I do understand. So what is "ideal" for tracking guitar? I do record vocals but I have always been happy with the sound of dry vocals and using gobos in pretty much…