The sound of the room is about 90% of it, where you put the phone is the other 10. Thing is, though, you can't tell what you're getting if you play back a recording in the same room you made it in, because you're hearing playback in that same ambience. You need to find a dead space to critique what your room sounds like. For many people, the deadest space they have is their car.
Back to the initial statement, some friends booked a session at Sun in Memphis, a studio with a very distinctive sound. During tracking, one of the wives shot video with her phone. That video sounds really good, and more to the point, it sounds like Sun.
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