Sound Advice: Room Without a View
This month's Sound Advice focuses on three different methods for creating an audio-friendly space - improvised booths, temporary and permanent spaces - each with their own benefits and challenges. They range from free to modestly priced, from very simple to fairly complicated. So start looking around the house for the perfect place to create your very own personal recording space.
A properly designed and constructed recording studio is an expensive luxury few can afford. A great deal of time, effort and funding is spent optimizing room dimensions and construction materials. Electrical and mechanical systems are isolated from the workspace. Interior design elements and furnishings are carefully selected for their acoustic and aesthetic impact. In short, neither homes nor office buildings are recording studios. But that's where you and I work, and sometimes we need to record voices, musical instruments and even sound effects. What to do?
Don't despair, fellow videographer, there are plenty of options for us too. In fact, there are more acoustic treatment products and information sources today than ever before. We'll start with some simple alternatives and work our way up to more sophisticated op…
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