Recording without acoustic treatment
Put simply, recording without acoustic treatment for most artist sucks. Loud house, nosy neighbors, pets, washer/dryer, siblings, parents; acoustic treatment is by far the best investment for anybody looking to record music.
How myexchampagne dealt with this, well he didn’t. Before he knew about treating a room properly he didn’t and recorded with what he had, like most artist. Today what it comes down to is patience and staying down until you can get into a position that allows not only the equipment to come but the knowledge itself of knowing you need proper acoustic treatment has to be there. The more serious you are, the more you’ll save time down the line, and slowly be able to buy everything you’ll need as you start to become more serious in creating.
To combat acoustic treatment, Amir would give 2 tips.
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1. Learn the eq
Learn eq as much as you can and using plugins to help tame noise is simply step one to trying to minimize background noise.
2. Lastly, try DIY methods to attempt to minimize noise, record in the closet, under covers, etc…
The reasoning why acoustic treatment is important is simple, one needs to understand mixing is fixing slightly out of tune things, not improving, most of the production is the performance from the artist. Your job is to make the performance as neat as possible and from there things should workout.
Hopefully this helps someone in the future, By: Christian
Originally published at https://mcereports.substack.com on October 3, 2026.
