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Don’t stress too
much about the sound of your room. After all, your musical and engineering
chops will be far more important than the ambient sound of your studio.
The best advice on this topic is this: do what you can and then stop. There
are other battles ahead of you, and with far greater consequences.
If you find yourself
drifting toward a state of total despair about the duress that you must
record in and under, remember
this. Great albums have been made under more
difficult circumstances that you or I will ever encounter. For example, Deep
Purple’s seminal album Machine Head was recorded and mixed in about three
days time in the foyer of an abandoned hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, with
mattresses flung up against the walls in a crude effort to minimize the terrible
acoustics of the stone walls. This was the album that went on to become a
multi-platinum seller, and firmly established the group in the Rock ‘n Roll
Pantheon.
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