[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Boris Lau wrote:

Hi Peter,

sorry for the late answer.

That's ok ...

Peter Larsen wrote:
I default to have the religious conviction that rooms should be
allowed to be rooms and to be imperfect. A room for recording an
acoustic guitar should imo be a room in which the instruement has a
pleasant sound. Try suspending some 4 t0 8 mm laquer coated plywood
panels near the walls. Or simply cutting down on the amount of
absorption. Which problem is it that you want to solve by making it
dead?

The major problems were severe modal issues because of the squareness,
plus flutter, probably also enhanced by the squareness. I thought
about using some diffusors instead of absorbers, but I was given the
advice to not use diffusors in small rooms like mine.

Bookshelves with books are excellent. I ended up with my living room being
so deadened that I swapped shelves for glass door vitrines.

It is important to understand that the sound of acoustic instruments
is changed by the room they play in because the hear the room and are
influenced by the room sound, as well as - in an ensemble context -
the ensemble sound. That comes with them being acoustic instruments.

Yes... Well, mostly I record track by track with close miking, so a
bit less acoustic.

One guy, singing and playing guitar seems to be a stereo pair thing
to me

Hm, maybe. I really liked the idea of the Fig.-8, as suggested by Ty
and others.

I didn't say fig 8 ... the Bang and Olufsen ribbon is a fig 8 btw. ... it
seems to have cult status.

Boris


Kind regards

Peter Larsen