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I've been struggling with this for 5 years, although i manage but takes more work.

First off good day everyone

Here's the deal, I strictly do live demos (ONLY), it works well for me, get them in and out really quick so they can get bar gigs or whatever.

I usually stick the singer outside, which where I live is the best vocal booth to my ears, dead quite in the middle of the desert except an occasional cactus wren that ends up in the track (LOL), but during the summer it's too damn hot so I stick everyone in the same room, vocal mic bleed sounds awful, but if they sing it the same way I'll just re-track the vocals and that cures it.

I love the room for drums, which I've been told that I'm lucky in the sense of the ceiling being 10ft for a home studio.

Well the room is 25ft X 19ft, 10ft ceiling and I really would like a general consensus on if I should keep rolling with the one big room, or split the room into two rooms. I do have enough Auralex, and bass traps for both rooms, but I just want to retain the room sound I'm getting, but if I split the rooms what should I expect?,

Please disregard the vocal booth I never got to it.

A big thanks to everyone, SUP BIG TREE

Not an expert, but thought I'd comment,

You have a good space which seems to work for you but I guess you are thinking of changing,
maybe for more work I don't know, but I think that's what you need to ask yourself, create a purpose built live/tracking room which is still big enough for quick demos with lots of bleed, but also great for multi tracking, along with a purpose built control room which would probably mean your mixes would end up better.

Is this room in the middle of a building/home or away from home/building on its own?

Have you thought of adding another room to it such as building a control room next to it?

Roguejackal wrote:Not an expert, but thought I'd comment,

You have a good space which seems to work for you but I guess you are thinking of changing,
maybe for more work I don't know, but I think that's what you need to ask yourself, create a purpose built live/tracking room which is still big enough for quick demos with lots of bleed, but also great for multi tracking, along with a purpose built control room which would probably mean your mixes would end up better.

Is this room in the middle of a building/home or away from home/building on its own?

Have you thought of adding another room to it such as building a control room next to it?

Thanks Roguejackel for chiming in,

It is, well was suppose to be a 5 car garage when I had the house built, but had the builder elevate two garage portion as part of the house.

I was considering running a snake to an adjacent room for vocals, with at least an 8channel for returns since some of the bands have a singing guitarist, but still leaves me with a monitoring issue sharing the same room as the drums, but that I can manage, but the vocal bleed in the same room does not jive even with the room treatment I had done, although tracking vocal when drums are done it sounds doable. I don't plan on going any deeper into work, I love the simplicity of just doing demos, no post work hardly (SWEET), and busy every weekend so that enough for me since I have other commitments.

THANKS FOR CHIMING IN BUD.