Recording a song in a small live (tiled) room - Multi-tracks walk-through

This is a walkthrough of how I recorded a song in a tiled room (bathroom) - rather than a more typical recording location - and a look at the multitrack mix project. I recorded the traditional gospel blues song in my bathroom. With all the tiles, mirror, window and other reflective surfaces everywhere, it's not normally a space I would use, but I thought I'd give it a go. You can see the video of the finished song here:    • Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (...  

I recorded guitar tracks, ukelele, resonator guitar and assorted percussion all in the bathroom to see how they would sound, and I used no additional reverb or spacial treatment in the mix on those parts.

However, I didn't record the vocal in that room. I felt that it would be too hard to edit and clean up a vocal with all that room sound embedded. So I used my normal recording room for the vocal takes, and added a short delay to it in the mix. But it later occurred to me that I could try running the clean vocal track through a speaker in the bathroom, and record that with a stereo pair of AKG C451B small condenser microphones back into the Pro Tools session, to create the same bathroom reverb effect. This is not something new but I thought I'd try it out for myself in my own space. And I have to say I don't mind it. :-)

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