Last year I was so into installing acoustic panels, bass traps, etc. I’m an electronic music producer/enthusiast, I have a home studio and I’ve been following Graham for a while and he is totally right. Merry christmas Graham and keep those articles coming. Tuning a room is a must, however minimal the treatment. I did however notice some comb filtering and flutter echoes on some vocals I did way back when I had no clue about room treatment.Įven with a cardioid mic, some of the room acoustic seeps into your recordings, and if you choose to place your talent poorly in the room you can still record unwanted things.īass building up in corners, flutter echoes, standing waves, phase cancelations and that list goes on.
#Acoustica the music room pro
The mixes I did in the pro environment did not need any reference check on other devices, it translated well from the get go.Īs for recording in an untreated room or a “home studio” treated room, I do agree that with the proper mic and mic placement you can diminish some of the impairments of these types of environments. I tried mixing the same songs again at home and it took me weeks of checking my mixes in the car, the home stereo, the computer, the iphone, headphones etc. I have done some mixes at Blue Wave studios (Vancouver) in studio B in, took me about 2 hours per songs (had 4 song). But as it pertains to mixing in a untreated room or even a poorly treated room, that room treatment becomes a must.
I usually agree with your opinions regarding not getting trapped into buying all this gear when instead you should focus on your methodology and training. Find ways to get around your limitations and focus on what you can control in order to get better sounding tracks. Don’t fight your limitations, but rather embrace them and move on. Remember, you’re already limited in your home studio. not too much or too little bass) you can get closer to a more accurate sound when you’re tracking and mixing. As far as mixing goes, if you can place your monitors in such a way that reference tracks sound their best (i.e.
Tune your speakers with reference tracks.So use this to your advantage and point the back of the mic to what you don’t want to hear. Most cardioid mics reject sound on the back. And in your case, that’s likely a good thing. The closer your source is to the mic, the less your mic will “hear” your room. Here are some suggestions to get more out of your current space: But the truth is, I get great sounding tracks (recordings and mixes) out of a small humble home studio every single week. Would I love to work in a professionally built and tuned room every time? Sonically speaking, yes. Trust me on this, I have worked in big nice studios and home studios. And if we focused our room acoustics enhancing energy into better mic placement, performance, and mix technique we’d likely get better sounding tracks sooner. But most of us can create fantastic recordings without those things. They make your life easier and you can track things like drum room mics and string quartets beautifully. Now, obviously good room acoustics are a good thing. So you’re really not after how the room sounds, but how your tracks sound.
#Acoustica the music room professional
What a relief! You see, all of that effort to make your room more professional was really just a step to get you to your real goal: pro sounding recordings. But you’ll never get it perfect and it will never sound pro.īut here’s the good news: your room doesn’t have to sound pro in order to churn out pro sounding tracks. These are two easy things you can do to instantly improve the sound of your room. Also where you place your speakers make’s a huge difference to how you hear the mix. I’ve made the case for acoustic treatment before.
Oh sure, you can make your room sound better than it currently does. Your room was built to be a bedroom, or an office, or a living room, or a basement, not a recording studio. You don’t have floating floors and ceilings, walls within walls, or even the right shape of a room to sound as pro as the big boys. The reality is, your room will never sound like a professional tracking or mixing room. Via OK Apartments Flickr Your Room Will Never Sound Pro But let me break some news to you: you’re not in a pro studio, you’re in your home. Whether it’s trying to perfectly treat your walls with absorption panels, or building custom bass traps, you’re after a pro sounding room in your home studio.
Many of you home studio owners are worrying too much about room acoustics.
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