Reply To: Tracking on non studio environments. Pros and cons

February 27, 2023 at 8:47 am #5009
Ryan Sutton
Moderator

    I’ve personally done plenty of recording in “non-traditional” spaces.  9/10 I cam able to get a decent recording once I figure out how to mitigate (a-la the use of go-bo’s).  Vocals can be tricky if the room is really live.  Drums can be tricky if you’ve got a bunch of parallel naked walls.

    To answer your question about the tradeoffs, I’ll take a great performance everyday over a technically perfect recording.  I’ve had times where I’m mixing an artist/band and the vocal recordings aren’t all that great but the performances were killer.  Rather than fight too hard against all the “imperfections”, I leaned into them more (exaggerate) and was able to create a cool sound that was unique and identifiable to the artist.