Room acoustics make up probably the biggest challenge we have in home recording. Not only can they completely change the sound of what is coming out of your monitors, making mixing and mastering really difficult (you’re left making decisions based on inaccurate sound), but the room can ad echo-y, reverb-y noise to your recordings on the front end. The best way to deal with this is to put acoustic treatment on your walls. But there are a lot of options out there. Sweetwater has a guide to help.
Key Takeaways:
- One important way to transform a room that was not initially intended for music, is to use acoustical foam.
- Acoustical foam can get rid of the noise anomalies, like slap and flutter-echo, which are endemic in an environment not created for recording.
- Flutter-echo is a noise one hears, because two parallel surfaces are reflecting sound off of them.
“Every sound in your studio will hit a surface and either be absorbed or reflected back. The lack of acoustic treatment can really color your recordings, and usually in a bad way.”
You can hear what an amazing difference acoustic treatment made in my home studio in my post here: Improve The Quality Of The Audio You Record At Home – Tip 6: Acoustic Treatment
Here is the Sweetwater guide:
Read more: https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/acoustic-treatment-buying-guide/