Vocal booth help

[Forsaken417]

Hello everyone,

I am very new to this and any help or advise would greatly be appriciated. I am also a noob when it comes to some of the termanoligy so please bare with me. I have read over quite a few posts but there is so much information out there i dont know where to begin. I am trying to build a fairly simple vocal booth. So here is the information I have and maybe someone can suggest my best route to go.

Currently I have a house with a spare bedroom that is located on the first floor. I dont have exact specs but imagine a room roughly the size of two large school buses side by side This room has two windows and original hard wood floors the only things currently in the room is my computer. I want to build a vocal booth in this room for recording hip/hop. I have everything I need to start recording minus the booth. If I record in the room like I am currently I tend to get the boxed echo effect I have been able to reduce this with my software but I think a booth would really impove the quality. I dont have a huge budget but I dont want something really cheap or cheezy either. I am pretty crafty so with some guidence I really should not have a problem constructing one. As for specs of the booth I have none this is my problem I dont know where to begin, I have been reading up on posts and there is just so many different ways of accomplishing this and I dont know which way is better and there are so many types of different materials and I dont know which is better or even where to get them. I mean if I could get 90% of this material from like Home Depot that would be great. So idk I guess plan and simple, I am looking for guidence on how to construct the booth and what materials I will need to accomplish this, some diagrams and pics would be very greatfull as well

Thanks in advance for any and all help I recieve.



Forsaken

[Forsaken417]

I guess I did forget to mention that, I am not worried about my neighbors, I do live in the city but really I dont think they could hear me even if I was shouting I am really looking for the best way to make the over all quality of my sound better while recording, i dont want outside interferance and really the main problem I am having with that is the boxy echo sound. If it wasnt that much more expensive It would be cool to put a window in but not needed

Thanks again

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by Forsaken417

I am not worried about my neighbors

In that case you do not need a booth at all. Just record in the same room as you mix.

--Ethan

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

In that case you do not need a booth at all. Just record in the same room as you mix.

--Ethan

A booth can still help a lot with the recording quality of the vocals.

Although, if I understood the OP right then he has a fairly large room with wood floors and not much in it. For some things, that might provide a good sounding natural reverb and you may not need anything at all.

But a vocal booth and/or gobos in the room can help tame reflections if you want an 'upfront' and clear vocal recording.

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by danny.guitar

a vocal booth and/or gobos in the room can help tame reflections if you want an 'upfront' and clear vocal recording.

The main problem with a conventional booth - a small totally enclosed room - is all the walls are close by. You can treat a booth for good sound, but it requires as much treatment as a larger control room. So better to just treat the control room and sing there. Again, this applies only when someone does not need the added isolation of a separate room with a door.

--Ethan