> The intent is to have > the ultimate amount of control over the mix. Dead > Rooms and synthesized sources help create that > circumstance. Or great sounding rooms with excellent natural reverb so you don't have to apply any effects at all? Of course, not everyone has access to one of those. I'm lucky enough to have a studio next door to a large house with its own ballroom - wooden floor and high ceiling. The guy who originally built the studio put four balanced cables and a headphone return under the lawn, so there's a wall box in the ballroom connected to a loom in the studio. Recently I recorded some vocal/acoustic guitar pieces - first we tried the very dry vocal booth, then the ballroom. The recordings from the ballroom sounded so good that we didn't bother trying to add artificial reverb to the vocal booth takes. This might not work for every kind of sound though, and the occupants of the house wouldn't be too pleased if we had the drum kit in there or electric guitars, playing late into the night as we usually do... Cheers Daniel
