Mar 25, 2005 04:48 pm hang quilts on the wall, add funiture, coach, chair, stuff like that. Lay capet or rugs on the floor...anything that is puffy like pillows and blankets will help.
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How to make a Live room a Dead room ???
Posted on Mar 25, 2005 04:38 pm
Sonic
Member Since: Mar 25, 2005
Hi people
I have a very live room its my main studio recording space. Wooden floor concret walls. what are some easy ways to suck up some of the live feeling so that i can get tighter recordings. ?
Any help would be aswome ?.
Cheers
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Mar 25, 2005 04:48 pm hang quilts on the wall, add funiture, coach, chair, stuff like that. Lay capet or rugs on the floor...anything that is puffy like pillows and blankets will help.
Build some of these www.homerecordingconnecti...story&id=50
Mar 25, 2005 05:15 pm a cheap (and not so well performing) alternative to Arulex is some egg-crate style bed foam, you can get a twin sided one for under $20 and cut it up into 3 2'x2' squares...i would invest in some bass traps though.
Mar 25, 2005 08:45 pm My space was concrete floors and walls, I just put carpet (which I got for free out of dumpsters) on the floor and walls. That made it completely dead.
Mar 27, 2005 12:26 am Thanks every one for all your advice so far
What is a bass trap ????.
Mar 27, 2005 10:29 am Only carpets do not make room dead, because they absorb only >1kHz frequencies, and the most mud in recordings comes from so called lower mids (<1KHz). The bass traps and similar things should be constructed, big objects in the room (funiture, coach, chair, stuff etc) also are good for that. I have heard people say that it is the best to record in the middle of a big field with cows grazing far away :)
Mar 27, 2005 12:19 pm Sonic, a bass trap will remove some of the very low frequancies which are really the worst part of sound bouncing around a room. The low frequancies that become more prominant when bounced around the room can misslead you and either cause the mix to sound muddy or as if it has to much bottom end.
They are usually placed in corners as corners are the biggest area for bass to collect so to speak. That includes the area were the wall meets the ceiling as well as just the room corners. So helping to block them a bit will give the room a better more truer tighter bass sound.
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