Isolation vocal box. Thoughts?

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I recently made this box, I simply got a cardboard box, some acoustic foam stuff and with it in there. Made a hole for vocals to sing into, another hole for the mic.
I've got a tiny room by the way.
Just wondering if you think this is a good idea or not? I got the idea from the internet somewhere.
Please don't make fun of me if its totally stupid, I'm no expert on recording!

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Full marks for ingenuity.

There is no harm in trying it. And it may give some interesting results.

However, I expect you will be better off just singing into your mike normally. The small room doesn't help. But I can't see your box helping much either.
 
Haha I see, I see.

I've tried it out and get a very dry sounding vocal track, almost dull. I'm yet to compare with a vocal track without the box tho
 
Interesting experiment. Can you post a couple of quick samples, one "in the box" (we'll have to work on that phrase if this becomes a trend) and one in the room proper?

My guess is that the "box" results will be dead at higher frequencies but maybe a bit boomy since your foam will be far more effective at high frequencies than down at the bass end of things--but I'm curious to hear if I'm anywhere near right!

My usual advice in an untreated room is to hang something soft behind you--quilt, moving blanket, that sort of thing and stand relatively close to it with the back of the mic pointing into the rest of the room. If you have things to break up the reflections (books on shelves, that sort of thing) on the opposite wall, so much the better.
 
Sure, just give me a sec and I'll record some talking for you, in and outside the box
 
Recorded some talking.
1st line is no box.
2nd line with box.

Some distants apart, same mic. Rode M3

Sorry it add to be Mp3, it would not let me upload Wave
 

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gecko zzed said:
There is no harm in trying it. And it may give some interesting results.
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Our ears and sensitivity change as we get more experience. What you might think is a great sound now, you might baulk at in 10 years. The reverb that you can barely hear now might sound like a cavernous cacophony to you in 5 years.
But every artist has to contend with this. Few people are that happy with the first things they did, in retrospect. But they liked them at the time. And so it may prove with your box. There's no harm done if you think it sounds OK. You might revise your opinion in a few years time !
That's progression.
 
grimtraveller said:
What you might think is a great sound now, you might baulk at in 10 years.
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Ain't that so!! Every song I record I think is the best . . . until the next one. And when I go back and listen to earlier stuff, I wonder what on earth I was thinking.
 
gecko zzed said:
Every song I record I think is the best . . . until the next one. And when I go back and listen to earlier stuff, I wonder what on earth I was thinking.
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Recently, a drumming friend was over from Zambia and he agreed to drum on some tracks and I was keen to have a go at one that I'd done when I first started recording on an 8 track 20 years ago. I hadn't played it in 20 years but I remembered it. I had a listen to the recording I'd done and liked back in '92-'93 just to see if there were any bits of other instruments that I needed to remember. When I've described my early mixes as unlistenable, this is the kind of thing I mean. It was so bad, even though I was alone in my van in the early hours of the morning on the road listening to it, I was squirming with embarrassment. If I never heard it again, that would be too soon, yet, I can't throw it away. The landfill would throw it up.
It was so bad, I wouldn't play it for a deaf person. :o
 
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