SE Reflexion Filter worth its weight in gold!
By Paul Dakeyne
| Posted in Music Technology
Having recently moved into my new post-production room, (that doubles up as my office) the only ‘studio’ necessity missing has been pro-standard bass traps and acoustic panels. For recording vocals, I had previously had the use of an acoustically dead (hmmm, perhaps too dead?) room with a decent microphone straight into an M-Audio Fast Track Pro. For my new space, I’d upgraded the A/I to the excellent ProFire 2626 and an SE2200A mic, but still had the problem of a room that was surprisingly good for mixing but a tad ‘lively’ for recording vocals, despite the old ”Mic stand facing the duvet’ ploy!
Upon the recommendation of a colleague with a similar problem, I ordered an SE Reflexion Filter and promptly set it up for my next recording session. Once my artist had arrived and we began recording and playing back the results, it was simply stunning 
The well written instructions explained that one should experiment with moving the mic position forward or back to ‘allow in’ or ‘keep out’ the room ambience (whichever balance suits). After a few of the said movements, a ‘sound’ was achieved, that through the 2200A/ProFire combination, gave me what I feel was a most excellent ‘dry to ambient room presence’ ratio, and a vocal quality that I quite honestly was blown away with! We did some A/B ing with the vocal sound we’d previously achieved in the more sterile, acoustically dead environment (without the Reflexion Filter of course) and the new vocal came way ahead in that shoot out.
So it’s a simple solution to a big problem – if you want to record stunning vocals in a room that’s not acoustically treated, and/or has numerous relective surfaces that cause recording nightmares, the SE Reflexion Filter comes more than recommended from yours truly!
Tags: acoustics, audio, filter, interface, microphone, reflexion, SE Electronics, studio