The type of room where you do the recordings will also have an effect on the finished sound. Are the walls hard and bare or are they covered or can they be covered with 'soft furnishings' to absorb the sound rather than reflect it back again. What about the floor covering is it wood or carpet or something else? I saw an article in a magazine a few months ago about settting up your own recording studio and they had pictures of a guy in a wardrobe with the microphone. The wardrobe had a mattress stuffed into the back of it and this is supposed to give very good results (no laughing at the back please). Another one was making a fort on the floor using a few chairs again with the mattress and duvets lying on top and on the sides and yes you've guessed it Mister wardrobe man was under the fort doing his Hamlet speech into the microphone.

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