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Jürgen Schöpf
 
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Default Recording in a Remote(ish) Area

Scott Dorsey schrieb:
sav wrote:

Reckon they'd have no problem with just about any shape. Do you mean a
sort of oval shape? What would be the best shape, or do you know a good
site I could read about this?



Ethan Winer has an excellent site on studio acoustics, but I don't know
if he has much about elliptical or round rooms. In any case, the fact
that the walls aren't a complete seal is going to reduce the importance
of a lot of that stuff.

Where are you located? Can you actually sit in a similarly-built
structure and get a sense of what it feels like? You can always take
a trip to the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii.... it's a tourist
trap, sure, but it has a whole lot of different style buildings with typical
Pacific construction methods. Clap your hands, talk, try and listen to
the room. You'll find they are much more dead than you'd expect a room
with standard block or frame construction of the same size.


This will do for now, if anyone's interested, including ideas on aspects
not mentioned in this post, reply here or on email. (minus the notthisbit)

What really matters, though, is that this is the sort of room that the
music is normally played in, and therefore this is what it's _supposed_
to sound like. So even if there are room problems, some of those problems
might be things you want to preserve.


I'll definitely remember that, if only to use it as an excuse!



Hey, it worked for Alan Lomax.
--scott


I just want to add some bad experiences I had to make with modern
African rondavels (cement walls about 1.5m high and grass roofs)...
really awful reflections...
:-J