I have a small studio, and yes egg boxes are very good, but the important thing is that you need a "dead" sound, i.e. asound that has NO natural reverb added from you recording space. I KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING TO SCREAM!!!! But..................................Unless you have a proffesionally built vocal booth and instrument room, you will NEVER get the instruments to sound "live". So the best solution is to record them as dry and as dead as possible and then use onboard effects and eq. to make it sound "right". I would presume you have access to cubase, logic or whatever, so it shouldn't be a problem. I personnaly use VST32 for most of my recordings ( mainly acoustic ), which has an incredible 32 bit reverb that sounds ssssoooooooooooooooooo smooth, and if you record at 24bit @ 96khz then Iwould challenge most people to tell if you did before or after!! SO, use egg boxes, but also add, or try alone, old heavy curtains, you know dark brown lined velvety things your granny used to have, which you can usually beg, borrow or buy quite cheaply. They also make fairly good sounproofing, or will cover up your egg boxes!!! SOLUTION 2 drag your mobilr home to the highlands of Scotland - slightly more expensive solution ;-)

Chers

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