Best Recording Sound

[dr1keyz]

Ok... Currently I am using a Powerbook g4 w/ Mbox Protools setup and a Rode NT2 microphone but currently I have no room to get the microphone to somewhere that is in isolation...So my question it, how can i achieve the best possible sound (for recording vocals) without the use of isolation?? ...Any low cost room techniques...etc?; thanks.

[bennychico11]

Are you trying to isolate the vocalist so you can record instruments in another room and not have microphone bleeding? If you're looking to just control the reflections and make a more deader space, they sell vocal baffling which you can set up in the room to create a small space for the vocalist to stand in. If you have a walk in closet, you could try recording in there too.

[dr1keyz]

where do you purchase "vocal baffling"?? I am trying to isolate the vocals as much as possible.

[protein]

Put the vocalist in a quiet place and put something soft up behind them so that the mic doesn't pick up any reflections from the wall.

[TimOBrien]

1) A walk-in closet full of clothes makes a great dead space or
2) Put up some cheap PVC pipe racks in a U-shape and hang moving blankets (HarborFrieght.com has them for less than $10) to make a take-downable vocal booth

Lots of ways to do it easy and cheap if you use your noggin and look around on the web.

[protein]

Just a quickie, if you want isolation away from the monitors then put the singer outside the door or use headphones.

* just incase that's what you meant by "isolation".

[dr1keyz]

Originally Posted by TimOBrien

1) A walk-in closet full of clothes makes a great dead space or
2) Put up some cheap PVC pipe racks in a U-shape and hang moving blankets (HarborFrieght.com has them for less than $10) to make a take-downable vocal booth

Lots of ways to do it easy and cheap if you use your noggin and look around on the web.

WHERE DO YOU GET PVC PIPE RACKS AT?? HOW TALL ARE THEY??

[notbradsohner]

for pvc, just go to your local home improvement store....(lowes, home depot) and they sell it there

it is just like plumbing pipe, so you can cut it however long you want it (i think they will do that in the store for you) and just add connector pieces for the corners

[notbradsohner]

its just like legos........you can build whatever you want

[robin watson]

At a stretch, you could spread a blanket over the singer and microphone. Looks totally silly, and not recommended for commercial enterprises, but for instant isolation and dead room sound, it's a fairly good approximation. We used this once for some three part harmonies, three people under one blanket - now that was getting a bit silly.......go with the PVC piping!