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Though it does have a bunch of cardboard boxes and such in it, and I think they probably absorb a little of the sound. The way I usually set things up is I sit in a chair near the internal wall, with my back to the wall, so I'm facing the large garage door. This is also one of the reasons I was wondering if I should go dynamic vs condenser. |
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On the condenser vs dynamic mic question, as well as placement, check out this video (which isn't in the main tutorial thread). Lots of examples using numerous types of mics and placement. As you'll see, there are no "right" answers:
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You might be interested in his podcast "Recording In Improvised Spaces". |
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It bears repeating... with absolutely zero exaggeration. That doesn't mean you need to treat the entire garage. You can make a portable space within a space. Most of us aren't going to achieve a perfectly tuned space in our home studios and that doesn't need to be the goal, but we can make our spaces better and better spaces lend themselves to better recordings.
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I've got something in mind, experimentation wise, I want to try, maybe. I don't even know if it's gonna work. |
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Now, room "treatment" can be doing nothing when you have a great space, but an unfinished garage is not that. So, IMHO, if you have enough money for an SM57, you have enough to buy a stack of moving blankets from Harbor Freight or similar, and I'd tack them up double-thickness behind you and put some on the side walls and maybe one or two overhead. In a bare room, you want to stop, or at least reduce as much as possible, extraneous room sounds from getting to the mic. The cardioid pattern will pick up everything coming from you, and also from behind, beside and above/below [you], i.e., that pattern is 3 dimensional, not flat like the printed spec sheet! Because the space is untreated, and has parallel surfaces, every sound/frequency will continue to bounce back and forth until it loses all of its energy. You help it lose energy faster by putting sound-absorbing material in the path, and behind you is likely the most effective if that's the closest wall. (Cardboard boxes, unless filled with stuff, will not stop, or even diffuse, much.) You have to experiment, but until you hear what the room is doing to the recordings, you're pushing a rope with mic placement testing.
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Another reason I use my garage is I work remotely, and my family is at home all the time. So they're always in and out of rooms. The garage is just easiest right now. |
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As far as the garage walls, also expected. The demo I posted for you was the same, sheetrock, garage door, door into the house, random garage junk laying around. Not likely to be a good sounding room without doing something to address the acoustics. There's a whole range of expectations and results with home recording, and a lot depends on what quality you want, how much you want to spend, and how much you care to learn about recording - it's a hobby/field of study in itself, and not everyone cares to invest the money or the time. If you just want a quick demo of your songs that you can show friends, your phone laying on the coffee table will do a credible job these days! Having the kids making noise in the background will just make it more personal :-) If you want better than that, you'll likely have to deal with the room acoustics issue one way or another. If recording isn't something you plan on getting deeply into, or you just can't address the acoustics for one reason or another, or your house is just never quiet enough, etc, consider just going to a commercial studio. You can likely find a decent local studio for under $50/hour. You'll probably spend less to do the kind of project you're describing than the cost of a few good mics, and get far better results. This topic of room acoustics comes up here once or twice a week. As Jim says, no one wants to invest the time or money, as it's not sexy. But it's the key to a good sound, far more important than any piece of gear.
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When I put out my first release, I just did vocals, because I used Band in a Box for backing tracks, because it was lyrics that I wrote. When I recorded them, I did so in my garage. I used a pop filter and my Oktava MK319 for vocals. I used Reaper as my DAW, and "edited out" the room noise with one of the built-in Reaper tools. |
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Well, give it a try. Have you recorded anything yet? Maybe you'll like the sound you get with the guitar, you never know.
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I haven't yet. I've gotta get out there and do it, and see if I can find what works.
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