My vocalist came over for a session today at my place, it's untreated and has concrete walls and the other half are paneled walls. The ceiling is some kind of tiled square materials that slide in the ceiling...anyway.
We were retracking his vocals and I was amazed how bad it sounded compared to the old vocals. We had the same setup, SM58 -> Saffire Pro24 -> Sonar + plugins and all that.
I did my best to get it to sound the same but I couldn't believe how different it sounded. The vocals sounded dead and flat sounding, they also sounded like they had a lot of bass build up. Our vocalist is ridiculously loud too so I'm guessing the room played a bigger role than I thought.
His place isn't treated either but it's a bigger area. I'm worried that maybe my whole room might be a bust and that maybe I shouldn't even invest in treatment because it already sounds dead I guess.
I have an ECM8000 on the way to test my room so I'll be able to see what the falls and numbers say but damn was I surprised.
EDIT: I managed to save the intro so here's both of them.
New Recorded here.
[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/new-1/s-nNwfI[/SOUNDCLOUD]
Old recorded there.
[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/old/s-SdjXr[/SOUNDCLOUD]
We were retracking his vocals and I was amazed how bad it sounded compared to the old vocals. We had the same setup, SM58 -> Saffire Pro24 -> Sonar + plugins and all that.
I did my best to get it to sound the same but I couldn't believe how different it sounded. The vocals sounded dead and flat sounding, they also sounded like they had a lot of bass build up. Our vocalist is ridiculously loud too so I'm guessing the room played a bigger role than I thought.
His place isn't treated either but it's a bigger area. I'm worried that maybe my whole room might be a bust and that maybe I shouldn't even invest in treatment because it already sounds dead I guess.
I have an ECM8000 on the way to test my room so I'll be able to see what the falls and numbers say but damn was I surprised.

EDIT: I managed to save the intro so here's both of them.
New Recorded here.
[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/new-1/s-nNwfI[/SOUNDCLOUD]
Old recorded there.
[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/old/s-SdjXr[/SOUNDCLOUD]