free floating floor for vocal room

[jimistone]

i got some heavy duty well built palletts (painted blue) from behind the local grocery store. (store manager said to get as many as i want...price: free)
4 palletts will give me a 6X8 room. The palletts have 3 boards on the bottom that will actually touch the floor of the room. I am planning on separating the bottom board of the pallett from the floor with sheets of styrofoam.

[frederic]

Originally posted by jimistone
i got some heavy duty well built palletts (painted blue) from behind the local grocery store. (store manager said to get as many as i want...price: free)
4 palletts will give me a 6X8 room. The palletts have 3 boards on the bottom that will actually touch the floor of the room. I am planning on separating the bottom board of the pallett from the floor with sheets of styrofoam.

Pallets will work fine if you fill them with fiberglass or some other insulation material before nailing them down.

Free is good!

[darrin_h2000]

Allthough any Shrude homereccer would have charged him for hauling them off.

[jimistone]

while i was at it I hauled off an old peg board display that they were gonna throw away. It has 2 sides of pegboard and spins....im gonna hang cords, headphones, guitar slide, ect... on it.....after i paint it psycidelic
hehehe

I think im going to make the vocal booth octagon shape....isn't that better than square?

[frederic]

Originally posted by jimistone
while i was at it I hauled off an old peg board display that they were gonna throw away. It has 2 sides of pegboard and spins....im gonna hang cords, headphones, guitar slide, ect... on it.....after i paint it psycidelic
hehehe

I think im going to make the vocal booth octagon shape....isn't that better than square?

Its better.

But.

You still have parallel walls.
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Yep, parallel walls.

[KingstonRock]

wouldn't just a pentagon be better than both a square or octagon?

[version2]

Anyone ever seen a spherical vocal booth ?

[frederic]

Originally posted by KingstonRock
wouldn't just a pentagon be better than both a square or octagon?

Yes and no. parallel walls are parallel walls. The larger the walls width wise, the more opportunity for standing waves. A trapazoid is the best shape IMHO with the singer aimed at an angle to one of the walls.

In regards to the comment immediately above this, whereas someone suggested a spherical wall, I saw a studio (many years ago, maybe 7 or 8) that was a square booth, with one of the walls as a semi-circle. Unfortunately, where the engineer placed the microphone, it was right at the reflection point for the entire curved wall, thus worked as a parabolic microphone, more or less.

Talk about phase shifting, it was very nasty. They ended up tearing that wall down, make it less of an arc, then covering it with several layers of foam.

Me, I would have carved up the entire booth at that point and start over, but thats me.