living near freeway, how do i keep excess white noice out of recordings??

[john o]

i need a corner of my room to be quiet for recording vocals and acoustic guitar. i would like to keep the budget under $100. my house is near a freeway and there's just enough white noise from the cars speeding by to create a recording problem. anyone else had to deal with this before? will hanging thick blankets to form a "booth" do the trick? thanks in advance!

[AlexW]

Sounds like you need to build a vocal booth of some sort. Try using the search feature for "vocal booth" and see what comes up.

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Buy yourself a $100 worth of time in a small homestudio that DOES have soundproofing. You won't solve much with $100 building wise. Forget blankets. Environmental noise enters the ENTIRE structure via structural as well as airborn noise transmission. To keep it out, requires mass, and decoupling of it, of which blankets have little. Although you can play tent.
fitZ

[RichHead]

You can rent a U-haul for around $19.95. :P

j/k and gl

[DenverRob]

John,

See the thread I started about using a condo room for a studio in this section. Everybody said it's basically impossible. Your situation is even worse--near a freeway! ("I'm gonna build myself a house, in the shade of a freeway").

Rob

[john o]

cool thanks for the advice. $100 of studio time is worthless, i write and record all the time. looks like i'll be moving next month. gotta love no-lease living situations!