[Peter Derek]

Thank you all very much for your valuable comments.

These also especially remind me of the density/weight rules for sound absorption for which there is no workaround – it is going to be heavy or the results will come back with a vengeance.

So I have chosen construction materials using your advice and your notes, and the video also adds further details of value – Thank you.

[Peter Derek]

Thank you very much – yes you guessed I am not able to determine who is being recorded.

When I myself record in various locations and studios I am surprised how I notice even small variances in the room acoustics.

Thank you again.

[Peter Derek]

Thanks

I am OK for external noise, there is none. I want to tune the room to cancel any tendency to echo or boom, for example if at the event a guest voice is strong. I do not of course want to make the space offer dead sound with no resonance at all.

To refine my question, I am wondering if to deaden room echo only with the use of acoustic foam the thickness of the wood onto which the foam is fixed is not important. The room sound will be absorbed by the foam and not reflected back to the mic.

[Peter Derek]

Thank you Richard very much for the link

The reason is that the host studio producer wanted a back up in case of any drop out in the link. None was detected.

As the recording was one voice he felt he could refer back to the back up file if needed. I note your comment but ask if the back up recording would be almost the same to allow them to at least use an entire phrase from the back up if needed in the final mix.
They would no doubt need to add some FX as drivers on local machines and others settings would be different.

But the huge news for me is that, to my delight, I have found I can record locally on Sony Vegas while also linking to a remote studio with Source Connect all on one PC. I do not know why it did not work before but it does – it was my fault not that of the system. So the recording function in Source Connect record, as does Vegas all while Source Connect is sending and receiving the stream.