[QuestionAsker]

My workspace up until now has been putting my laptop on my dresser drawer, an SM57 w/ boom arm, and a MCA SP1 condenser mic balanced within one of the dressers.

My aim is to set something up something cheap and basic, yet that can provide professional results.

I only really need to record voice, acoustic guitar, and plugged guitars (bass, electric guitar).

Looking for tips on how to best utilize my space to create professional recordings.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started? - like what might be the best way to arrange my room for recording music? Where to put sound deadening panels? Best way to setup a vocal booth in my closet?

My plan currently is to:

Build a desk, to go right next to the closet. There's about 73 inches (185cm) from the closet to the bed, so I was thinking of using most of that space for a desk (~70 inch desk).

Rig up some sort of vocal booth in the closet. Use hanging clothes as sound insulation, and perhaps put egg cartons on the walls all around the hanging clothes. Open to suggestions if there is a better solution.

Not sure what else to do in the room to ensure good results. Any suggestions?

Here are pics of the space:

https://imgur.com/a/5X5b45R

https://imgur.com/a/TuWGP29

Alternate bed positioning: https://imgur.com/a/K06h8T1

https://imgur.com/a/Yr53QLf

https://imgur.com/a/TDQFhUx

[cowparsleyman]

@QuestionAsker - Your right about the mic in the closet, that would work for vocals, and maybe the acoustic guitar, how does the Live sound come over in your recordings? (that can be quite an asset) I'm guessing not brilliantly since you want to improve the sound, maybe post an example of how it is now, that might help us.

Rich

[QuestionAsker]

@QuestionAsker - Your right about the mic in the closet, that would work for vocals, and maybe the acoustic guitar, how does the Live sound come over in your recordings? (that can be quite an asset) I'm guessing not brilliantly since you want to improve the sound, maybe post an example of how it is now, that might help us.

Rich

Thanks Rich - might be the best option.

I been thinking about getting a desk for forever, I'll get one in the room and set something up, and start recording, I'll share the recordings once I got something decent

[cowparsleyman]

@QuestionAsker - There's also a lot one can do with mic position, (too close and it'll sound boomy - the proximity effect - too far away and you'll get a bunch of background noise, too close to the soundhole or far up the fretboard and it'll sound awful etc.etc.) new strings, nails, accuracy of performance, precision of barre' placements..Get picky with your recording, don't rush it, take time to get it right. It's not like a live gig, when minor playing imperfections are heard but not remembered, they are there forever in 24bit clarity.

If your mic has a 80hz pad sometimes that can help, What acoustic do you record with?

Learning a song and performing it are two very different things, and recording it is really the next step, once the you can perform it.

Hope this helps