Bedding foam to deaden a "vocal booth".

[Uladine]

For my current project I am going to convert a closet into a vocal booth temporarily. I want to make it as dead as possible. Will bedding foam like the kind they sell at walmart get the job done? I dont want to spend a bunch of money on actual studio foam because I'm going to have to take it down when I'm done.

 

[M.Brane]

My experience with bedding foam is that most of it just isn't dense enough to do much to anything but the high freqs. If you deaden just the highs and don't treat the mids & lows you'll just make the room muddy sounding. If you get real studio foam it's more effective on the mids but still doesn't do anything to the lows. Upholstery supply shops sell dense foam but it's usually about the same price as the studio stuff.

 

[knightfly]

Here's a cheap way - just leave the clothes in the closet. If you still want it deader, mount some of the 3" or so real foam on a piece of 3/4" plywood, and slide it into the closet when you're using it. Kinda like the "Maxwall" stuff. Might wanna make sure the clothes haven't been hanging there for a couple of years, or else wash the mildew out of 'em before asking a singer to stand/sit between two sets of smelly long underwear :=) Hey, its all in the interest of science, right?

 

[c9-2001]

get burber carpet padding.. it'll work...
the thick green stuff at home depot...