[LAU] Best recording practise

[John Anderson]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:01 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Oi mates!
>   I've got the following scenaroi:
>   A microphone recording in a suboptimal room. Here's a breif discription and 
> my question is: How best to proceed, where best to place the mic?
> It's a room roughly four by four or five by five metres. Carpet on the floor, 
> wood panelled ceiling, mostly bare walls, one side with three windows (half 
> room height) with thin curtains. My work place is located in one corner (wall 
> and windows). I've got some keyboards to one side and in back, so I could 
> drape some material over them.
>   Where should I best place the mic now? Unfortunitely I can't do real room 
> correction because of shitty multi-media speakers only. Any ideas what I can 
> do in general to compensate/improve the recording?

What instrument(s) are you recording?

bye
John