How to Use a Baffles in a Recording Studio

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On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Gregg Tauriello. I'm from Sweet 16 Studio, and I'm here to talk to you about soundproofing for a recording studio. Hi, I'd like to talk to you about interior sound management within a large room. The room I'm in here is thirty feet by forty feet. It's much too large for most instruments. Sometimes I want this kind of a sound, but before I was saying how a person may feel more comfortable in a large room, and you want to prevent as much of the bouncing as possible. Remember that pool ball that bounces around the pool table, the sound is bouncing around this big room more than I want right now. But I have a person that wants to record in this room, what do I do? I'm going to set up a baffle behind them. Reason being when they're singing or playing their guitar, whatever instrument it is, the bouncing in the room is going to come into my microphone from the back angles like this. When I put up this sound baffle, it helps prevent some of those sounds from being bounced around the room, and eventually ending up in my mic from this direction. That's just another trick of the trade, and this can be done for many different purposes. You could have a shorter sound baffle so that people could be sitting and see each other, yet their sound is isolated from each other, you could build several of these sound baffles. For a drum set, you could have them around the drums to contain those. If you don't have the money to build a bunch of rooms, it's okay. You can just do baffling within your large room to start, and that's a really great way. You can always record live bands too. Live situations are great to do in big rooms like this, it sounds more energetic, it gives life to the recording, you don't have to add any reverb, it just sounds lively. So consider the sound baffle after your studio's built. You can pick these up cheap or you can build them yourself.

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