help!!! with acoustics

[gullyjewelz]

I started using my closet as a vocal booth. The closet is roughly 6.5 by 6.0 feet.

I hear an echo when recording my vocals. Can I edit this out of the recording some way?

Or can I buy some kind of soundproofing materials to eliminate the echo?



please advise

signed . . . Mr. Shoestring Threadbare (its time for me to get some kind of job . . . cuz i know i need a budget!!!!!)

[mixsit]

Put the clothes back in.
Seriously. A two-foot deep row hanging would be quite a good broadband absorber. Maybe some spots of 2" fibergalss on the side-walls and ceiling.

[gullyjewelz]

Thanks for the info

now, ahmm, if i could trouble you 1nce more to inquire

what is a "A two-foot deep row hanging"

and i guess i can find some spots of 2" fibergalss for the "side-walls and ceiling" in a hardware or music store?

[Innovations]

unfortunately there is no way to edit out room reverberations, only to add them.

I have just had to do the same thing that you are doing.

Usually the clothes will act as a sound deadener pretty effectively, bu my closet had the same problem because two walls (one of which had the doors on it) and the space above the clothes were bare and hard. The ceiling had that spray-on stuff that is not all that absorbent at all. Two routes you can go.

You can buy some sound-deadening foam (stuff that is really designed for the purpose, not matress foam) and put it on the walls.

Or go to an insulation supply store (you will likely have to find a construction supply company not a home improvement store for this) and get some unfaced rigid fiberglass ro mineral wool insulation (Owens Corning 703 or equivalent). This will likely run you seventy cents or so per square foot per inch of thickness and you will most likely have to buy a whole bale (a 2 foot high stack of 2 by 4 foot panels). Since the place I bought it from the cost went up linerly with thickness (two inch panels were exactly twice one inch panels) I just bought one inch panels since this meant I could make one, two, three, or four inch panels as I felt I needed. Use gloves and wear long sleeves when handling. cover the panels with an accoustically open material. Many folks like burlap. I used felt. Finding something that will stick the felt to the 703 was difficult My first thought was to use stickyback velcro...completely useless. My second choice was hot melt glue...satisfactory, but only because it won't be under a lot of stress. Use 1 inch to soak up highs, 3 inches to soak up highs and mids, and four or more inches, near corners, to kill bass rumble.

[apl]

For the song in my signature line, I recorded the vocals using my wife's closet. I slid the door all the way open and put the stand in the middle of the opening right against her clothes. Then I sang toward the closet. Most of the sound gets absorbed by the clothes, and another big chunk by the bed. The echoes coming off the walls are pretty minor as a result.

Hope this helps!

[mixsit]

Originally Posted by gullyjewelz

...what is a "A two-foot deep row hanging"

Sorry, I meant a row of hanging clothes.
And assuming that, the low end would be fairly well absorbed. For the mids and highs, stuff 3 or 4 inch common fiberglass into a few lightweight frames with thin plywood backing, wrap the things in a porous cloth, hang them on the walls/ceiling. (The frames are just an open-face box that makes mounting soft fiberglass easier. Start with one on each side about mic' height (maybe one on the ceiling). You don't necessarily need to cover everything.
Wayne

[mixsit]

Originally Posted by apl

...Then I sang toward the closet. Most of the sound gets absorbed by the clothes, and another big chunk by the bed. The echoes coming off the walls are pretty minor as a result.

Hope this helps!

There you go. You might not even need the rest of that ...stuff.

[gullyjewelz]

thanks
i will begfin investigating all of lthese methods

thanks a lot

[guitarstudent9]

Take the Rug Out of Your living room and Hang it on the wall and celing
Take the pillows off your bed and drop one in each corner and try agian
it worked for me 1 pillow makes a big difference in my closet.
My wife came home early to catch me with her cover and pillows one day.