I'm thinking about setting up an impromptu echo chamber in my house to add a bit of richness and warmth to some of my recordings.
I record vocals and guitar in a room that is fairly dead, and I find that the tracks lack fullness and depth as they don't have a "soundstage", so I was thinking that this echo chamber idea may help.
The room that I am thinking of using is a fairly large combined kitchen and dining area. It has a lot of reflective wood surfaces (hardwood floors, wood cabinets, wood furniture, wooden window blinds etc.), and it sounds great when playing my acoustic in there. It also has a large opening into the livingroom area and a hallway that gives a nice subtle "slapback" effect.
As I only have one decent mic and pre (Rode K2 and GT Brick), I will have to make do with those. I also have an extra set of decent sounding mid sized bookshelf speakers to use. The plan would be to send the recorded tracks through the chamber one at a time and record the room sound to a new track.
The mono room track would then be very subtly mixed with the original (and possibly panned to the opposite channel of a hard panned guitar track). I'd love to have stereo, and I guess I could try recording 2 ambience tracks with different mic positioning, but I don't know if that would work too well.
Does anyone have any guidelines regarding speaker and mic positioning, or any other tips to setting this type of thing up? I realize there are no rules, but any general feedback (including whether or not it is worth it) from people that have tried this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
JL