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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
