I am curious about the noticeable changes from experienced users who have gone from Garage or bedroom recording to a more professional environment that is properly tuned and or accousticaly treated for mixing audio.
I have recorded in bedrooms and more recently moved into a garage. The garage is about 10x16 and has insulated and finished walls and ceiling with carpeted concrete floor. My recording desk is in the center about a foot from the wall, with a couch behind my chair and a vocal booth to the side.
I use a 100 foot snake that goes to another detached garage with an 8x12 office to record drums and guitars in.
I know that the rooms reflections and such can cause lots of inaccuracy in what the mixing engineer is hearing.
Occassionally I might get a little too much low end or too much high end on a Test mix played in a Car and then go back and fix it.
But lately with more experience and routine recording the consistency has been better with mixes.
I'm just wondering how much improvement I will see in my mixes by actually building a room that is tuned and treated for mixing/mastering audio?
I'd like to hear anyones experiences who have made that move.
I am wondering if its something that can stay on the back burner or if I will have tremedously possitive results and should really push for accomplishing this goal?
Im getting to the point where I am competing with standards of a local studio that has produced some solid demos but has also done professional albums for a Nuclear Blast artist. Equipment wise we are comparable. Experience wise, they got me there but I am constantly working on that. Studio wise Im in a garage, they have a facility with special rooms for recording and listening. I am looking to get better clarity and quality and I am wondering if its still just more experience needed or if quality of listening environment will help me get that much closer since it seems pretty important to accurately hear whats going on in the sounds of the instruments and the mix as a whole.
Hopefully I am making sense.
I have recorded in bedrooms and more recently moved into a garage. The garage is about 10x16 and has insulated and finished walls and ceiling with carpeted concrete floor. My recording desk is in the center about a foot from the wall, with a couch behind my chair and a vocal booth to the side.
I use a 100 foot snake that goes to another detached garage with an 8x12 office to record drums and guitars in.
I know that the rooms reflections and such can cause lots of inaccuracy in what the mixing engineer is hearing.
Occassionally I might get a little too much low end or too much high end on a Test mix played in a Car and then go back and fix it.
But lately with more experience and routine recording the consistency has been better with mixes.
I'm just wondering how much improvement I will see in my mixes by actually building a room that is tuned and treated for mixing/mastering audio?
I'd like to hear anyones experiences who have made that move.
I am wondering if its something that can stay on the back burner or if I will have tremedously possitive results and should really push for accomplishing this goal?
Im getting to the point where I am competing with standards of a local studio that has produced some solid demos but has also done professional albums for a Nuclear Blast artist. Equipment wise we are comparable. Experience wise, they got me there but I am constantly working on that. Studio wise Im in a garage, they have a facility with special rooms for recording and listening. I am looking to get better clarity and quality and I am wondering if its still just more experience needed or if quality of listening environment will help me get that much closer since it seems pretty important to accurately hear whats going on in the sounds of the instruments and the mix as a whole.
Hopefully I am making sense.
