singerRecorder
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Hi all ! First of all, thank you so much to everyone who is so helpful on this site.
After reading so much though, I feel I am getting very confused, and I haven't read anything that's quite my situation. So here goes :
I need to create a space where I can record vocals. No instrument, nothing, only a singer facing a mic.
I have this room in my house that also needs to serve as an office. I have tried recording on it, and it's terrible because walls are concrete on one side, plasterboard on the other, with no acoustic treatment whatsoever. So the echo is terrible.
I need to treat the room so that there is much less echo.
My current idea is to make the bottom left corner of the room a sort of open voice booth. I have low DIY skills, so I am trying to go for a simple solution.
My plan is to buy two bass traps, one on the corner in the floor, one on the corner in the ceiling (found some at like 15 GBP on amazon)
Then put 2 or 3 plaques of acoustic panels on each of the 2 walls, close to the corner (found some packs not too expensive on amazon)
I also use a semi-sphere of foam directly placed on the mic stand (though I am not sure how much this helps).
Does that make any sense ? Is it just hopeless to leave everything else untreated ? I could probably put more acoustic panels on the other walls, but I hear that bass traps are the most important, and I think it will become very unsightly for the office to have too many bass traps.
Is there a better idea ?
Thanks !
After reading so much though, I feel I am getting very confused, and I haven't read anything that's quite my situation. So here goes :
I need to create a space where I can record vocals. No instrument, nothing, only a singer facing a mic.
I have this room in my house that also needs to serve as an office. I have tried recording on it, and it's terrible because walls are concrete on one side, plasterboard on the other, with no acoustic treatment whatsoever. So the echo is terrible.
I need to treat the room so that there is much less echo.
My current idea is to make the bottom left corner of the room a sort of open voice booth. I have low DIY skills, so I am trying to go for a simple solution.
My plan is to buy two bass traps, one on the corner in the floor, one on the corner in the ceiling (found some at like 15 GBP on amazon)
Then put 2 or 3 plaques of acoustic panels on each of the 2 walls, close to the corner (found some packs not too expensive on amazon)
I also use a semi-sphere of foam directly placed on the mic stand (though I am not sure how much this helps).
Does that make any sense ? Is it just hopeless to leave everything else untreated ? I could probably put more acoustic panels on the other walls, but I hear that bass traps are the most important, and I think it will become very unsightly for the office to have too many bass traps.
Is there a better idea ?
Thanks !