@ Dave & Doug…
Re_HEALLY_ Hmmm… I must say, I DO think my vocal recordings are somewhat ‘harsh’ sounding…definiately not a dead sound like I would expect…saying this without any treated room experience, other than a real pro studio, but that was many years ago and I didn’t do lead vocals.
I hear ya though, you guys are speaking from your own comparitive experiences.
I just did a bunch of backround vocals - this time I remembered to turn off my monitors
The only experience I’ve had with sleeping bags or blankets has been in my kitchen, with recording my outgoing business phone greeting message…there was so much extreme reberberation I had to get a thick blaket, pull it over my head and answering machine…couldn’t see for sh!t what I was doing
I’m not about the cover myself like that in my home bedroom studio, which is nowhere near as bad as my kitchen, in fact I really don’t get any such reverberation per say, I only get slight reflective sounds.
I don’t want to take the time to properly treat my entire home studio right now, if ever…but I do want to do something more portable in the near future. I’ll definitely make something…likely build some tall frame type portable baffle/partition that I can either hang or set up partially around me…something like the above link, but larger. It’ll either hang from the ceiling or be stand alone partitions. Thing is, an 11X14 ft room isn’t all that large when you have a room full of gear.
For now, for vocals… If ‘something’ like sleeping bags, blankets, baffles, partitions make as big a difference in the recorded sound as said, then I’ll take that for what it is and do something soon…something of a cheap and quick but nice solution…I’m not hanging ugly mismatching sleeping bags and blankets though…I have some amount of pride in having my home studio look nice, I’ll build something attractive. If rockwool or that other board mentioned in the other thread is fairly cheap I’ll buy that…and maybe some suitable material at Wal-Mart to cover it. I already have a stockpile of wood strips to make some frames.
if you don’t wanna go the sleeping bag route then, yup, make some 6 foot high frames and a ceiling for them and fill them with 4" rockwool slabs. cover with mice cloth. You vocals will suddenly be devoid of that horrible smear all those hideous reflections cause and will be MUCH EASIER to mix as they’ll be a squllion % clearer