I have a room with wood ceilings and a wood floor. The walls, 2 of them are brick and two are sheetrock. Should I completely deaden the walls? when the walls are bare the room sound is "ok". But if i deaden the walls will that ruin the purpuse of the wood ceailing and floor. This is a room for drums btw

The optimal setting is imo setting all faders to -14 dB (+ 6 dB fain = 20 dB)

This way you will have more room to mix and to place tracks in the front end.

My experience is that the sound is more open, wide, clear, deep, warm, clean and professional.

just 0.2 cts.

I need some advice from people who've been around.

I won't be tracking drums. Probably just vocals, guitars and percussion. I'll have to outsource the drums for anything major. everything else will be direct in.

The room is a small cube, so i'll be padding everything to get the maximum isolation and try to dispell my standing waves.

I've read that it is not recommended to EQ a room if you're using nearfield monitors. I've also read that it IS recommended to EQ a room if you're using nearfield monitors.

I've been mostly doing indie mastering (and some mixing), and just wondered what people thought about EQing the room (on top of treating it, of course) to get the flattest possible response.

Hi folks,

I'm almost done recording a demo CD for a Beatles cover in which the drums were played on a Yamaha TD-7 and further channeled through samples from Platinum Drums and Drumkit from Hell.

I posted a thread a week or so ago about monitors and the responses have helped me make the decision to go buy a quality pair later today.

My question is this: how does recording and monitoring at the same time work? when I'm singing over tracks (harmonies etc) won't the mic pick up feedback from the speakers? (that's why I've been using headphones)

thx in advance

this is something i recorded in my room. i used a RODE ntk1 mic, a dmp3 preamp and a spirit notepad mixer. i use Cubase sx.
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...or do you have small acoustic reflections from walls?
Do you find it important to kill very small echo/flutters? even if they are not triggered by the speakers from where they are placed.

I am working with a great sounding but very dry drum kit. What kind of a drum room do you "put this kit in" in a mix ?
Do you let it share the "main reverb" (minus the kick drum)?
Do you give it a separate (smaller?)drum room ?
What kind of parameters do you use for such a drum room?

We should start up a chat room on MIRC so we can all hang out and chat on our spare time. Ive been searchign for such a channel and have had no luck at all. If this already exist let me know if not lets get one started up :)