Setting up a home studio? As a voice over artist, the room in which you record is the most important factor to consider. It is more critical than your mic, your interface, expensive preamps, your computer and software. If your sound is compromised before it even gets to your microphone no amount of expensive equipment is going to be able to make up for poor acoustics.
There are two areas that you need to consider that are often confused and misunderstood; soundproofing and sound treatment.
The best approach when treating a space is to use multiple treatments concurrently to attenuate frequencies across the spectrum as evenly as possible. This is never going to be perfect, and short of a physics degree experimentation is going to be your best method for treating your recording room.
We’ll go into more details below, but here is what you basically need to do:
Start with your empty space.
Put in the microphone and stand, your music stand and any other equipment that is necessary for you to record, then record a sample.
Gradually bring in your treatment and sample as you go until you have a room that cuts down the reflections as evenly as possible across the frequency spectrum. Don’t be afraid to leave areas of
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