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Room Treatment Example

Lesson 10 from: Audio Production: Record Better Audio

Tomas George

Room Treatment Example

Lesson 10 from: Audio Production: Record Better Audio

Tomas George

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Lesson Info

10. Room Treatment Example

<b>In this lesson, we will look at an example of treating a room so that room is more suitable for recording audio.</b>

Lesson Info

Room Treatment Example

OK. So this is a standard kind of room that you may have to use for recording audio or mixing audio. It's far from perfect. It's a square shape and has a odd shaped ceiling. Let's hear what this room sounds like. Now, I'm just going to clap three times. You may have heard some flutter echoes there. It's not ideal, but what we're going to do now is apply some acoustic treatment. As you may imagine, not everybody can have their own specialist room just for recording audio or podcasts. So for this, we're going to try and transform this room and make it as good as possible for recording and mixing audio. OK? Now, let's have a listen to a podcast microphone in this untreated room. OK. So what you can hear right now is recorded through this dynamic microphone here and this is very suitable for podcasts or voiceovers. And as you can hear, it doesn't sound amazing in this room and if I stand back, the quality will get worse. So what we really need to do is be quite close to the microphone and ...

also treat this room. Ok. Now let's have a listen to this podcast microphone after we treated the room. OK. Now I'm speaking into a dynamic microphone, this electro voice re 20 at average distance you could use for a voiceover or a podcast in this treated room. And when I go back, you can tell the quality is not gonna be quite as good, but in a treated room like this, it still sounds fine. OK? And now we've treated this room, some of this is professional acoustic treatment and some of this is diy. Now, let's hear this room again. I'm going to clap again and you should notice there will be less flutters than without this treatment. As you can hear. It's made a big difference. The room is no longer ringing out and just sounds a lot more suitable for recording and mixing as you heard before this room did sound quite bad and now it's a lot more usable. So this is what you can do to your room with some simple acoustic treatment to treat this room. I used some diy methods which included a large piece of foam. I also added some bean bags into the room and also put down a rug to help absorb the sound of the room as well. I use some professional acoustic panels which are hung on the wall and also onto the ceiling. Ok. Now let's just do a quick comparison again between the untreated room and the treated room. So I hope you can hear that treating your room can make a big difference to the quality of your audio. So thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials

1._My_Recommended_Budget_Audio_Recording_Setup.pdf
2._Microphones_for_Video_and_Film_Makers.pdf
3._Different_Microphones_and_their_uses.pdf
4._Microphone_Accessories.pdf
7._Audio_Interfaces_and_Examples.pdf
11._My_Recommended_Audio_Travel_Gear.pdf
17._Downloadable_Audio_Examples_Used_in_this_Lecture.zip
20._Noisy_Audio_Example_for_Noise_Gate_+_Noise_Reduction_Effect.wav
23._Downloadable_Audio_Examples.zip

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