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Originally Posted by chris carter  Please take my words as encouragement because I AM really impressed with what you are trying to do here. So I don't mean this as an insult by ANY means. But, when I listened to the first one, I thought it was the one with no treatment and I thought, "okay, that's a lot of room." Then I listened to the second and went "what is going on?? this one is supposed to be drier!"
Bottom line, I don't think you will be able to get away with your 'dry' sound (unless you want it that way for creative reasons).
Not to bring up the comforter/duvet trick yet again, but when I moved my studio about six months ago I set up the room without the treatment first (delay in shipping all my 703... sucked). The room had NO treatment at all except carpet on the floor. Just to see what would happen in such a worst case scenario I threw up a mic and tested with nothing. And it sound like your no-treatment sample, not suprisingly. Then I threw up the blanket behind me and tested again. It was BETTER than your treated sample. Of course, now my room is treated for mxing (so not dead) and when I use the blanket I can make it dry as a bone if I want.
I don't know why so many people have such an aversion to the blanket trick when it works so well and is so darn cheap. If I was always recording in different places, then sure an RF would be nice. But for anyone who records at the same place all the time, it should be a no-brainer. Some people say it doesn't look as cool, but a friend of mine got raelly nice comforter/duvets with fancy patterns on them and it looks twice as pimped out as an RF. And no sight line problems either.
so lpuma, if your goal is really to knock the room ambience down, I really think you should look into that option.
I'm sorry this post sounds negative; I'm really just trying to be helpful as I went through the same process you are going through (and most have gone through) trying to get drier vocals down. |
No man; I apreciate honesty forreal, I jus need help, dont need d***riding comments.
I personally liked the "treated" one better but your right, I heard that a lot of the reflexions still there.
I'm gone try that blanket tin, we really cant afford voice recording studio time, thank you.
Thanks dah, you probably right, jus tryin to get the best result wit something I actually can afford.