[Jonathan Starr]

I do a bunch of my tracking in the control room, primarily because it feels friendlier and more more conducive to good communication when everyone is close. With vocals and keys and stuff plugged direct, it works fine.

With anything loud I tend to have problems in avoiding reflections and resonances from the sides of the console and gear and other stuff in the space.

I'm doing a traditional Hawaiian project with a lot of percussion tracking, and the drummers sit on the floor to play most of it. I don't have much treatment on the bottom 2 feet of my walls or racks, and I get slapbacks and ringing unless I'm careful and use gobos.

My drum room windows are about 3 feet up off the ground, perfect for making eye contact between a drummer on a kit and the console and a vocalist in the vocal room. If I put the percussionist on the floor in there I won't see him at all.