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Old 6th April 2006, 12:34 AM   #7
Brad McGowan
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Originally Posted by HDGuru
Depends a lot on what type of music your doing. For rap and pop stuff, a neutral sounding dead room is best. Meaning that the room needs to absorb frequencys across the spectrum evenly. For other types of more ambient music a larger room with some reflection may or may not be better depending on the ambience of the overall mix. I would much prefer a dead room to a bad sounding live one though. You can always add ambience with effects. The most important thing is that the room absorb evenly from bottom to top. The only way to do this is with proper use of multiple layers of materials specifically constructed for this purpose.
That explains why I've always thought rap vocals sound odd on recordings. I'll take a big live room for vocals any day. I think it gives my recordings a signature sound having the vocals and drums in the same sonic space.

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