#1661537 - 03/02/04 02:10 PM
recording in different rooms?
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Archer
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what do you folks think about recording different parts for a song in different rooms? For instance, tracking vocals in the bedroom and guitars in the living room and drums in the garage?
Do you find the sound of different rooms helps or do the different rooms make for a "mushy", hard to mix song and therefore you prefer to do all the tracking in one room?
Of course I'm assuming that all the rooms have been correctly accoustically treated.
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#1661540 - 03/02/04 04:02 PM
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KenElevenShadows
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I love recording tracks in different parts of the house, so yes, absolutely. It lends itself to some great environments. Also, sometimes if you record the vocals in another room, it's really not all that noticeable. I record vocals in the bedroom occasionally if the other parts of the house are being used, and it blends quite well with the rest of the track anyway.
In Track Records (formerly Devonshire Studios) in North Hollywood, we often recorded vocals, guitars, or other tracks in rooms other than the big room, or in the other part of the studio, and that blended well also. Sometimes, I think maybe it's better to record in different rooms!!!
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#1661541 - 03/02/04 04:40 PM
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Jason Poff
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A lot of tracks recorded in the same room and then mixed together = alot of that rooms character in your recording. Not necessarily a bad thing, but definitely something to watch out for. Especially in a not-so great to average room. Tracks recorded in different rooms are easier to mix, on average, because the ambience is different. The peaks and nulls happen at different frequencies creating a more even mix.
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#1661542 - 03/02/04 04:50 PM
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Jason Poff
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#1661543 - 03/02/04 05:18 PM
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miroslav
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Originally posted by Archer:
I'm planning on taking my latop to other musician's houses or anywhere else and tracking there parts and was wondering about the vast differences in rooms. for instance, recording an organ in a church for a song mostly tracked in a bedroom. These can create happy accidents...or not... 
...but even if the rooms are extremely different from track to track...you still have the ability to pull them together when you mix.
Reverb, Delay, EQ and Compression can help with that...and of course, just throwing up multiple tracks VS hearing them individually at different levels, will often give you a new "mix"…
...so I would not worry to much about recording in different rooms.
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#1661544 - 03/02/04 10:15 PM
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KenElevenShadows
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Originally posted by Jason Poff:
A lot of tracks recorded in the same room and then mixed together = alot of that rooms character in your recording. Not necessarily a bad thing, but definitely something to watch out for. Especially in a not-so great to average room. Tracks recorded in different rooms are easier to mix, on average, because the ambience is different. The peaks and nulls happen at different frequencies creating a more even mix.
Jason
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