can tell you now you are going to get a mixed bag of advice. In my experience you have 2 options.
1. Spend a shit load of money and make the room sound fantastic. (Large, High Ceilings, Bass trapping, Mid/High Absorbers, diffusion, etc.)
Or
2. Create a somewhat "dead/controlled" and I don't mean dead to the point of a shitty unbalanced sound, the instrument should sound great in the room, just not as reflective room that in a way kind of takes the room out of the equation a little more. Now you can create a sense of space with Room samples and reverbs. I truly think that a ton of bass trapping is always your friend. Be careful not to absorb all of the highs and leave the mud area untouched.
My tracking room is far from big (500 sq ft) with 8 foot ceilings. I can get decent drum sounds for sure. I track my vocals and guitars in a smaller 7 x 8 booth that is very treated.
Also don't make the mistake I made the first time. I made the live room big and the control room small. The control room is where I spend most of my time and it was crowded and sounded like shit.
Hope this helped.
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Old November 15th, 2012, 09:28 AM #3 (permalink)
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Thank you for your help. I note what you advised me. with a control room contare That can be up to 25 square meters, but the live room have 3.40 x 3 meters expandable That One Could 4,60 x 3 meters if necessary . There are 3.15 meters tall in room.
This size room, with a proper acoustic treatment, could be enough to record drums and vocals with good quality?????
Regarding the fishbowl. It would be possible to use a camera with monitor, instead of using a soundproof window to make the fishbowl????? Do you know if there are studies That Do not use window in the tank and instead use a camera with monitors???
What result would give the use of cameras and monitors to communicate the Control Room with Live Room, instead of using a soundproof glass window?????
A greeting and thank you very much for your help.
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Are you actually constructing from the ground up? A room within a room, floating floors? If so we are no longer taking budget into account so go for the double pane glass. If you are not going to that extent and are trying to do this a cheap as possible don't worry about the window and worry more about SOUND of the room. Don't forget the most important part of this whole process is making the rooms sound good. A soundproof room isn't necessarily a good sounding one. I truly believe in most "home studio" situations where square footage and budgets are quite as big that a somewhat "dead/controlled" room will be the way to go. Bass Traps, Bass Traps, Bass Traps.
