Hello there, I was wondering whether any of you has had to record audio in untreated rooms, and how to mitigate reflections. I found that while bad room reverb sometimes works for certain instruments, most of the time it just sucks because you can't remove it in post production. In my case, I mostly create instrumental music so bad reflections are my biggest enemy.

The other day I made an experiment, while recording myself rehearsing with a phone to track my progress, I placed 3 notebooks, one on each side and another one behind the phone, and guess what, the sound was truer to the source (given it was recorded on a phone), and the typical boxy sound of the room from other recordings was gone.

Most of you will tell me, just fix the room acoustics, but sometimes that's not even an option!

I guess another good advice would be to avoid big condensers and work with dynamic microphones as they are more directional. Have you tried similar workarounds? Please share your thoughts!