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something that's worked for me in the past with small rooms and adjacent lively rooms is to leave the door between them open a little bit and put a couple of mics in there. Move them around, crush them with compressors or transient designers, eq the piss out of them... experiment with different amounts of door opening, put a gobo in front of the door... whatever works!
One studio I was in last year had a bathroom in the live room that had 12 foot ceilings. Stuck an LDC way up in there with the door closed and had a great sound! closing the door kept the cymbals from exciting the room, and I got a great ambient kick and snare sound.
The big room at Cherokee out here in LA has a long tiled room off the main live room that's used exclusively for this kind of thing... Good luck!
Ryan Hewitt
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