I have nothing very special up in the drum room ... Just some wire racks on the wall the drums face to hold my mic collection and cables, wall to wall carpet on the floor and some moving blankets stapled to the walls. The ceiling is 7' 6".

Wow......thank you for the response. Right now I'm trying to find all of the potential problem areas and get creative to correct them. Maybe I'll pick up a few moving blankets or something to cover the untreated areas.

Do you think I should go nuts on treating the room for bass build up issues or just leave it? My untrained ear doesn't hear a problem with the room, but I'm having a hard time getting some decent sounds.

I guess I'll work more on the ears and save money. Hopefully once my ears start hearing these things I'll have money to do something about it.

Arthur,
I am not an acoustics expert. I have set up some recording spaces that worked very well. Usually they were in rooms that had lots of volume.

My feeling about using small rooms is they do not usually work well as an acoustic recording space, so I just absorb the crap out of them, with what ever I've got ... blankets, carpet on the wall, drapes, foam rubber, fiberglass panels ... what ever. I worry about bass modes in my control area but not so much in the recording spaces because I close mic everything.

Then processing techniques in playback and mix come into play because I am not really recording an "acoustic space", everything is close miced and no room mics are used (because the rooms sound like sh*t) so I have to create the space with short reverbs and delays.

I am not saying there aren't issues using a room that doesn't have bass treatments, to record instruments in I'm just outlining what I do sometimes to over come the problems without putting up a lot of treatments.

Hey thanks again, Kurt. As always....another thing learned. Well....got my first session of the week starting in a half hour. I have to start setting up.