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ok so i need head phones which ones do you recommend for a budget of 100 dollers. now i have my vocal booth upstairs which is 50 feet of wire needed.so the 100 dollers is going to have to include the wire. i was wondering do they make wireless headphones. also im downstairs so i need some kind of way to talk to the person upstairs from my workstation any suggestion..??
 
Why did you build a vocal booth? Is there a live band playing in the room that you need to isolate the vocalist from? Did you put in the research to make sure it's built in a way that it's deader than any other room in your house/lets in less noise from outside than any other room in your house/ doesn't end up sounding like you're singing inside of a closet?

If not, just get some headphones with good isolation (and you can read reviews to find out which ones have it) so that you can minimize bleed into the mic during tracking. Then set up the mic in the quietest place you can find that has the fewest really obvious echoes. Living rooms work great.
 
Beyerdynamic make a good headphone for around $100. you can get a 50 foot extension at guitar center pretty cheap and if you have to get two of them.
 
well I did some reasearch an they said to get better sound. Quality is to block out all backround noise, so what I did was use my closet as a vocal booth an bought auralex foam an coverd the walls with it I have 2 bass traps in each corner an the floor and door is covered in the foam too it sounds good but. Do u think I should take some foam off the walls someone mentioned to me that too much foam isn't good.?
 
That vocal booth is going to have very dead sound.

yes, there are wireless headphones. They may not have the range you need though, and the sound can drop out depending on interference from house wiring, etc.
 
Dead? yes, that's what the booth is all about.
Now... good mic + good room = good recording. This is a much better combination.
 
Well yes and no. If your trying to sell the recording by all means yes good singer. :cool:
 
I wouldn't spend more than $20 - $30 on a pair of headphones. You want something with enough volume to hear and a closed back design to keep them from bleeding into your mic. You really don't need anything "accurate" because you should be mixing on monitors.
 
A lot of times those $20. to $30. headphone just aren't comfortable enough.
 
You can get the ATH-M50S (straight cord) for about $80 new on ebay. Then have $20 for the extension.

Very good sound with comfortable fit and decent isolation for bleed control.
 
A mic " hears" what it hear.. If it's a small room ( closet), that's what the mic will reproduce.. If it's a larger room, the sound will be larger.. Of course you can after recording the signal, play around with reverbs/room simulators,etc., bit IME, the sounds comes out unnatural sometimes..?.. I agree about if possible, record in the living room ( or control room). I'd rather reduce a room size ( by adding gobos/baffles to close/tune the room in),than to just physically make a room small and can't do anything else about it..Good luck..
 
I have been told ALOT that foam can be bad for recordings or even do nothing. As these guys have said a larger room gives space for a larger sound. I would try to move your vocal booth next to or in the controll room. It seems a bit rediculous to have it up stairs.
 
Hey man,

They do make wireless headphones, but your sound quality is compromised unless you are able to spend a bit more than 100 dollars on a wireless set up. I would suggest sennheiser HD 280 pros. They are 99 Dollars but you could probably get some secondhand. Then you could get a couple headphone extension cables for $40 or so.

As far as talk-back you have a couple options. One more expensive than the other. One: use an external mixer to send the headphone monitor signal and use an extra microphone into one of the channels on there.
Two: get a set of wireless intercoms from radioshack. They are pretty cheap.

Good luck,

-jD
 
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