9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
1:47 p.m.
I'm a big believer in bathroom recording. If you have a real bathroom
with fully tiled walls, you just won't find a better sound. Mic
placement is everything, though. Buddy Holly and the Crickets
recorded a lot of songs in the shower room at a high school football
stadium, and the bathroom at Sun Studios was well used as an isolation
booth on more than a few historic occasions. Invest in some cords and
take it to the terlet!
On 10/9/07, Emiliano Grilli <emillo(a)libero.it> wrote:
Tuesday, 09 October 2007 alle 12:01:24, Julien
Claassen ha scritto:
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?
With a dinamic microphone you should'nt have big problems, since you'll
probably use a distance of 5/10 cm from the source. Try to angle the mic
in different ways (eg mic from bottom or from top). For vocals you can
cut everything below 150 Hz so boomyness shoud'nt be a problem too.
If the room reveals to be a real problem, you'd better go to recording
elsewhere (with a long cable for example) than try to treat the room:
also remember that too much deadening doesn't sounds so good. Hits
have been recorded in bathrooms.. so experimentation in sound is always
open... :) Usually, the bigger the space, the bigger the sound...
Kindest regards
Julien
HTH
Ciao
--
Emiliano Grilli
Linux user #209089
http://www.emillo.net
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