I think it's a terrible idea. The sound will either be full of early reflections and unusable reverb, or if treated, sound dry and closet-like. You'd be much better off renting a local hall for the day and recording there.

It's a great idea!

IF you have the money...

You can make a really decent mobile control room, that's for sure. There's plenty of good mobile rigs that are in trailers.

The problem is going to be the tracking environment. 8' by anything is gonna require a LOT of trapping and thus, is gonna be pretty dead sounding... which wouldn't be hoorible for amps or as a vox box... but drums are gonna be pretty lifeless in a room that small.

I would think about the most you could get out of a trailer is CR, a SMALL tracking room and an iso box.

Check out John Sayer's forum... there was a guy that built a studio in a storage container... which is about the same thing... but a bit less complicated than a movable trailer.

Sounds like a good idea. Implementation is going to be tricky though.

The closest thing I can think of is a guy who built a one-room studio out of an old RV over on TapeOp. It was an interesting read.

Maybe it will help?

http://messageboard…

Check these out. It'll probably be way more expensive but, it might save you some headaches.

http://www.vocalboo…

Edit: Sorry. Next time I will read the entire post before I respond. I wish I had the freedom, the time and the money to take on that project. It think it's a great idea if you can pull it off. I'd be spending a lot of money on security for something like that though.

My first "real" studio was a Merita Bread truck that I converted into a control room and iso booth. Worked pretty well, too, as long as the group I was recording had an area to track in. I used churches, recital halls, warehouses, a boathouse (!), plus the usual crappy bars and outdoor events. Nothin' wrong with what you want to do, just be sure to have some sort of hospitality item, like a cooler of soda!

I love the one in a trailerbody at John L's site. Drums etc. will be a little cozy, but you do what you gotta do. And like you say, it might be better than a series of untreated rooms.

One of my suppliers sells several models of production trailers for mobile recording and production.

http://www.markertek.com/vptr.asp

It might help give you an idea of what kind of budget you'll need to get started.

Good luck.

dvdhawk got to it before I did: Markertek is the way to go, at least for a mobile recording rig & production room. You can have your own dedicated control room, plus snakes to run into different venues & rooms, have an onboard vocal booth & iso room, and adapt as you go.

I do think a traditional trailer (8xwhatever) just isn't going to give you the height & width needed for a good live (Drum) room. Better off running your cables out to a rented room or hall and going that route.

check out Brian Ahern. https://www.musicia…