[sneezebomb]

hey blindside,

You're right, those reflections off that low ceiling are nasty and will play hell with your sound. i record in a low-ceilinged room with lots of windows and parallel walls and i have a pretty good notion of what you're dealing with. i just put together the king of ghetto vocal booths for myself and it's making a significant difference. However, i did not have it for the last song i recorded and in the interest of improving the vocal sound, i rigged a kind of tent of heavy blankets around me and above my head. It was the overhead covering that made the biggest difference. (That tent was hilarious btw. i used mic stands and a clothes rack to hold everything up. It collapsed on me during a take. But it made enough difference that i decided i needed to build something more permanent)

If i remember your other post, you're on a time crunch so there's probably not time for you to build a booth, correct?

Ok. Here's a really goofy suggestion. If the guys in your band are around for the vocal recording, you can use them to suspend a heavy blanket over your head to cut out the overhead reflections. Position them so that their bodies act as further baffling to cut out wall reflections. Maybe have them wrap up in heavy clothes as well. They can stand with their backs to you if it makes you less self-conscious while recording.

That really is a goofy suggestion. But cheap. And it might work. But do something to cut out those overhead reflections. Those nasty reflections really pile up when you do multiple tracks.