live room

Echoey recording chamber

A live room is a space with hard, reflective surfaces that allow sound to reverberate rather than being absorbed.

Recording studios use live rooms to capture natural acoustics for drums, strings, or vocals that benefit from ambience: We tracked the drums in the live room to get that big sound.

The opposite is a dead room, where soft materials absorb reflections.

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microphone · tracking · drums · amplifier · soundproofing · foam panels · booth · session · performance · wood · high ceilings · reflections · ambience · ceiling · mixing · tape · baffles · isolation

Opposites
acoustic treatment/reverberance

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Acoustically absorbent enclosure

isolation booth · sound booth · vocal booth · padded room · control room

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