 Re: Do a hollow room matter for recording?
It depends on how serious you are about doing this. Iam doing my best to work with my music, but to be honest I have been plagued with such horrible acoustics in the room that I'm recording that it's just pathetic at this point. Let me put it into perspective, linoleum for the floor, there is no doors, there is a lot of traffic in the room because it connects an open kitchen, dining room, and living room and to get to these rooms you need to go through where I am supposed to record. The linoleum reflects sound so absolutely terrible and it's just bad. Now I can help you by saying that buying a new microphone and soundcard will only enhance the effects the room is having on your vocals because of the enhancement of quality, clarity, etc. If you are using your microphone primarily for rap music then I strongly suggest deadening the room. However if you do more than rap music, like singing and playing guitar a live room can be useful because acapella singers and such use live rooms but if you don't then don't worry. Anyway my tips for you on deadening your room is simple. You don't need to "soundproof" your room, just merely need to eliminate the acoustics. For this you should cover all windows with a rug, or comforter, and what a lot of amateur studios do is they have curtains suspending along all the walls in the room where your going to do recording. Another approach is having a closet emptied and having comforters along the inside of the closet and setting up the mic in there. The idea of a hollow room is primarily for the use of what you are planning to record. If you are doing just rap vocals deaden the room because the idea is that reverb and other mixing you do on the vocals will be a lot more apparent and the clarity will be overall improved. So I hope that helps you figure out the approach you want to choose with the room you are using. | 
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