Best Sounding Room In The House

[LuvMahogany]

What's your favorite room to play your guitar in your house? The one with the best acoustics.

For me, if I'm playing my usual fingerstyle fare, it's my small office - mostly drywall, not much to absorb the sound. If I want to stum hard, it's the living room - high vaulted ceilings, very open and a bit of echo.

[Steve DeRosa]

My bathroom - mirrors, tile, the most wonderful natural short-decay reverb, and I don't have to worry about humidification...

[BrunoBlack]

My favorite playing location is in the loft. The angled ceiling and combination of wood & plaster surfaces sound great and the light in the open space is very nice too. Since I don't have kids at home and my wife enjoys music this works out nicely.

[Big*Al]

The unfinished basement is my room of choice. When it's warm out, I'll play in our detached garage. (My wife would rather not hear me.)

[Mooh]

I have my roughly 12x22 lesson room with comfy chesterfield, love-seat, La-Z-boy, area rugs, stucco ceiling, drywall, instruments on the wall, 4 windows, in other words lots of variety to the reflective and absorptive surfaces. It's actually surprisingly acoustically neutral and we've used it to record a couple of CD projects. The kitchen is next to it, but with the kids gone and the bride working, it's not an inconvenience. There's an exterior door so folks don't have to walk through the house. I can hide away and play all I want, generally seated towards one corner facing either a side or end wall.

[The Bard Rocks]

Flat and hard surfaces work best - one reason why folks like to sing in the shower. However, when you get several instruments going in such a room, it suddenly can get muddy and mixed-sounding.

[jaybones]

The bathroom is usually best for me, with the solid surfaces.

That's where I'll record any open mic stuff I need to do. Can close the HVAC in there and not have much ambient sound to the room.

The loft/vaulted entryway Cape Cod style house is also a nice place to play. The space in front open up, and the guitar soundhole is about 8 or 10 feet above the laminate flooring of the entry hall.

Lets the sound waves reflect from well down from where they're creates. The ceiling opens up a little higher over the entryway allowing the waves to expand.

[AndrewG]

Kitchen. Wood floor, reflective walls, kettle and tea

[VJP5]

We have an extra bedroom (12'x12') that has hardwood floors and a solid parquet wood ceiling. House was built in the 50's so I can't even imagine what it would cost to do that now Drywall walls. The acoustics are just phenomenal, even for a hack like me. My wife agreed to make that our 'music studio room'. I have 2 brother in laws that play guitar also. Whenever we jam, it's always at my house because they love playing in that room, too.

[Jobe]

I hope this qualifies as a 'room'. (It does for me). Years ago my brother drove up to our lake cabin in the northeast from Dallas. He arrived around 2:00 am. To wind down he picked up a guitar and went to the end of our point which jetties out about 75' from the beach. To give him space, I remained on the porch. It was a dead quiet night. Not a ripple on the water. He played 'Black Muddy River'. Even though he was facing the lake and his back was to me and he was 100' away I could hear him clear as a bell. It was hauntingly beautiful. That 'room' on that night was magic. You just can't build it any better.

[muscmp]

actually the kitchen as it is live and has a tall ceiling. rarely get to play there, tho.

play music!

[MikeBodd]

I use my old garage. we tiled it. put a wooden ceiling in. Gave it a nice paint. popped a few mirrors up. and then put a longue suite, coffee machine, midi controller and guitar stands and well hangers. I love it

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[Wade Hampton]

All of the rooms in our house have slightly different acoustics. When I have friends over to play music, though, we play in the living room. It sounds really good.

Our old, smaller living room at our old, smaller house had terrific acoustics. We'd cram everybody in there asstoelbow, and it sounded GREAT! But we moved away from Anchorage out here to Darkest Chugiak, twenty miles north, so we could get a bigger house for less money. Been here ever since.


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[DukeX]

Big garage with high ceiling.

[musicman1951]

I have not tried the bathroom. While I would record there if I needed to, I'm not spending hours playing to the toilet.

I like the kitchen the best. The end where I play is 12' wide (14 at the working end) and 23' long - all hard surfaces and right angles.