Room choice for guitar reamping

[J.Lindmann]

Hi there,

I am planning to do some reampings in the next couple of days.
As I live on an abandoned farm, I have several options room-wise.

But what would serve my goals best?
I am looking for a very direct, dry Soud, close-to-the-audience with a tight low end.

My choices are:
- Living room: small room (5x5 m), a lot of furniture in there
- pigsty: low slab, medium size, bare walls, empty room
- old barn: pretty big, level and rather low slab, some stuff in there, bare walls
- Big Hall, high roof, bare walls, litte stuff in there
- Outdoors/3-walled-shelter: barely any wind, no neighbors :Smug:

What would you choose, and why?

 

[cfh11]

i would choose the big room since reflections would be less of an issue

 

[J.Lindmann]

i would choose the big room since reflections would be less of an issue

But the outdoor option wouldn't have any reflections at all.
Wouldn't that be even better?
Has anyone ever tried something like this?
Or would the outcome just be way to dry and lacking ambienece?
Or: Do modern metal guitar tracks need ambience/reflections?

 

[abt]

I would choose the pigsty just because it sounds the best when telling people.

"I reamped in a pigsty"
"Yeah, my studio's pretty messy too"
"No, I literally reamped in a pigsty"


Seriously I would go for what ever room is going to be most convenient and work with it. I mean that's why we reamp in the first place because it give us unlimited takes. If you can't get it to work in the space then move on.

Also, if you want it really dry sounding then you can always try to control some of the reflections as needed or even put blankets over the whole thing.

 

[mva801]

I would choose the pigsty just because it sounds the best when telling people.

"I reamped in a pigsty"

/thread. Why the hell would you do anything ever in any area BUT the pig sty?

 

[Terminus]

I think you should just set it up in the easiest place for you to set it up, try it out and do some test recordings and if it's not working, move it and try again.

 

[J.Lindmann]

I think you should just set it up in the easiest place for you to set it up, try it out and do some test recordings and if it's not working, move it and try again.

Yeah...I already figured.
But I hoped to save some time by asking you...as you might say:
"Forget about the hall that will sound awefull" or so.

I would choose the pigsty just because it sounds the best when telling people.
"I reamped in a pigsty"
"Yeah, my studio's pretty messy too"
"No, I literally reamped in a pigsty"

Haha… yep that would sound pretty cool.
Maybe I should really do that.