Helmutcrab wrote:
I am concerned the room will be too dead now as the only panels i can have with reflections ( all paper faced ) are those on the wall behind the monitors ( mixing position ). Everywhere else there will now be full absorption. I suppose there will be some life at the mixing position, where i need it.
When you have a small room or with an unusual shape the advice I had at one point was to make it as dead as possible...on the grounds that any reflections won't be conducive to mixing. I reckon you would need a room that sounds good anyway if you are going to go for a more reflective mixing room.
A very dead room is still useable, you can still mix in it but there is some danger you will add too much reverb and echo. When this happens and a track is played in a living room it will have too much verb on it, bearing in mind that you are hearing it with the reverb of the living room also......
.. in practice it is not a problem if you listen to reference material in the studio.
If the room is very dead it can be good for recording vocals in but what I find is that acoustic guitars, a miced guitar amp, shakers etc all benefit from being recorded with some room reflections too.
