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Thanks for the info guys. My main problem is that my space is real limited. Half my bedroom is a bedroom and the other half is a studio. It's about 9 1/2 feet by 17 1/2 feet. The reason I was planning on doing the very dead thing is because my house sits on a fairly busy side street and I don't want to have to keep redoing vocal takes because some kid in a lowered civic with glass packs just vrroooomed by. When my roommate decides to move out, then I'll have the entire room for just recording, but now it has to have a big bed, dresser, desk etc so I am limited on what I can do. The air gap between the wall and the sound diffusers sounds great, but I simply don't have the square footage to do that.
If I do the bass traps etc and make the room fairly dead to the outside world, is that going to make it more difficult to do my mixes with any accuracy? I have a lot to learn about this, but I know that the "best" ways to do it simply aren't an option right now. My gut feeling tells me that most of all, I need to have a quiet room to work in. My guitar cab is in the living room so I can get a fairly live sound for that part of the equation. I've been told that since my room is not designed to be a good vocal room, I would be better off recording vocals very dead and adding a little ambience so that is why I decided to go dead. Plus the issue with outside noise.
The sound board that I bought was from Home Depot and I would definately say it is designed to be put in the wall and not outside it. It does look like it is made of compressed cardboard.
So now that I have better described my sitsuation, what do you think? I need a dead room to do vocals and to block traffic noise and I have a minimal amount of square footage I can spare to accomplish this. The sound board is 1/2" and I bought some 2 1/2" , 2lb density studio foam. I think I may be limited to just adding some bass traps and hoping for the best unless you guys have a better idea.
Thanks again for all your feedback.
Steve
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