KVR Audio

Cole1012 · Post by **Cole1012** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:00 am

I'm stuck with a 13'6" x 12' room for the next year. I don't know the height of the ceiling yet. Is this type of a room less of a problem if I'm making lo-fi music?

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:23 am

If your room isnt right it will effect your mixes whatever the fidelity of the music. Mixing at lower levels will help (a bit).

cron · Post by **cron** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:42 am

You might even like to consider the room an asset and incorporate its sound into your tracks depending on what particular strain of lo-fi vibe you're going for. I think the best lo-fi sounds come from making the most of and emphasising the character of your actual limitations rather than doing everything clean and then faking it.

Heck, I've made music on laptop speakers in a tiny overheated bedsit with elements recorded using the inbuilt mic on a tiny Portastudio clone that only records at 192K MP2 (yes, MP2) at 32kHz!

Lo-fi to me is all about eccentric mixing decisions and elements being lost in the strangely EQed fug and swirl. Get that fug and swirl consistent across tracks and you're away!

Spiritos · Post by **Spiritos** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:26 am

I know nothing about lo-fi but I've heard some postive feedback about 'room correctors':

http://www.krksys.com/krk-ergo.html
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/arc/
http://www.diracrcs.be/

Also some monitors let you adjust for your room. I myself am moving to a shitty small appartement myself in a couple of months and I'm going to rely on headphone mixing most of the times and I just bought the VRM Box:

http://global.focusrite.com/usb-audio-i ... es/vrm-box

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:36 am

If "lo-fi" means to you "I don't care about how it sounds elsewhere" then this is just another factor you shouldn't care about.

Twelve or 13 foot, that's about 4x4 meters right? Dimensions like that should not really be a problem if you have taken care of the most obvious direct reflections. Some book cases filled with clutter for example.

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:01 pm

Roger Miller wrote:Ah but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.

Anything else must surely be hi-fi regardless of ceiling height.

Winstontaneous · Post by **Winstontaneous** » Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:18 pm

bob bobwood wrote:
Roger Miller wrote:Ah but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.
Anything else must surely be hi-fi regardless of ceiling height.

Tee-hee!
I guess dithering algorithm used for the four-bit room would affect quality as well.

Are studio dimensions as important in producing lo-fi music as they are in producing hi-fi music?